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Cubic post-critically finite polynomials defined over $\mathbb{Q}$

Jacqueline Anderson, Michelle Manes and Bella Tobin

Vol. 4 (2020), No. 1, 23–38
Abstract

We find all post-critically finite (PCF) cubic polynomials defined over , up to conjugacy over PGL2( ̄). We describe normal forms that classify equivalence classes of cubic polynomials while respecting the field of definition. Applying known bounds on the coefficients of post-critically bounded polynomials to these normal forms simultaneously at all places of , we create a finite search space of cubic polynomials over that may be PCF. Using a computer search of these possibly PCF cubic polynomials, we find fifteen which are in fact PCF.

Keywords
arithmetic dynamics, post-critically finite, cubic polynomials
Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 37P05
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Received: 3 February 2020
Accepted: 29 April 2020
Published: 29 December 2020
Authors
Jacqueline Anderson
Department of Mathematics
Bridgewater State University
Bridgewater, MA
United States
Michelle Manes
Department of Mathematics
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Honolulu, HI
United States
Bella Tobin
Department of Mathematics
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK
United States