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Arboreal Galois representation for a certain type of quadratic polynomials

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We give a description of the arboreal Galois representation of a quadratic polynomial \(f(x)=x^2-(4k+1)\), where \(k\in {\mathbb {N}}\) and \(4k+1\) is not a square in \({\mathbb {Z}}\).

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Funding was provided by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (Grant No. 108-2115-M-003-001).

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Li, HC. Arboreal Galois representation for a certain type of quadratic polynomials. Arch. Math. 114, 265–269 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-019-01390-x

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