# we-solve research prompt: Math-2154, Periodic orbits near a Cremer point

Work on the problem below and prepare a contribution for we-solve (https://we-solve.github.io/problems/periodic-orbits-near-a-cremer-point/).

## Rules
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## Problem statement (quoted material)
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% UnsolvedMath ID 5300033; source catalogue code AMR-052-0033
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\section*{Periodic orbits near a Cremer point}\label{5300033}
{\small UnsolvedMath ID 5300033 · AMR-052-0033 · Dynamical Systems · AMR Open Problem Lists}
\subsection{Definitions and mathematical statement}
Let $R:\widehat{\mathbb C}\to\widehat{\mathbb C}$ be a rational map of
degree at least two, and let $a$ be a fixed point with multiplier
$R'(a)=e^{2\pi i\theta}$ for an irrational $\theta$. Derivatives at
infinity are interpreted in a local coordinate. Assume $a$ is Cremer:
no holomorphic coordinate near $a$ conjugates $R$ to its linear part.

Say that $a$ has the small-cycles property if every open neighborhood
$U$ of $a$ contains infinitely many distinct finite periodic orbits
of $R$. Each counted orbit
\[
 O(z)=\{z,R(z),\ldots,R^{q-1}(z)\},\qquad R^q(z)=z,
\]
must be contained wholly in $U$ and be different from the fixed orbit
$\{a\}$. Does every Cremer fixed point of every rational map have this
property?

For a periodic Cremer point of least period $r$, the corresponding
formulation applies to the return map $R^r$ at that point. In terms
of $R$, the small periodic cycles then lie near the full period-$r$
orbit, rather than near only one point on it.

Density of repelling periodic points in the Julia set is insufficient:
it gives a periodic point near $a$ but does not keep its whole orbit
there. The property is known for quadratic polynomials, while
nonlinearizable holomorphic germs without small cycles exist. The
question asks whether the requirement that the germ extend to a
rational self-map rules out that local pathology in all degrees.
\subsection{Short English statement}
Does every Cremer point of a rational map have whole periodic cycles arbitrarily close to it?
\subsection{Sources}
\begin{itemize}
\item[S1] ULAM.AI and the UnsolvedMath Contributors, supplied problems.json, record 5300033 (AMR-052-0033), AMR Open Problem Lists. Catalogue identity and source transcription; CC BY 4.0.
\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/ulamai/UnsolvedMath}.
\item[S2] Stony Brook - Open Problems in Dynamical Systems, 1992, Milnor local P8. Original source indexed by AMR-052-0033.
\url{https://www.math.stonybrook.edu/open-problems-dynamical-systems}.
\item[S3] Milnor, Problems on local connectivity, Problem8, in Bielefeld–Lyubich (1992).
\url{https://www.math.stonybrook.edu/preprints/ims92-7.pdf}.
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
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- https://www.unsolvedmath.com/problems/AMR-052-0033

## Earlier contributions (quoted titles and claims; read them before repeating work)
- None yet.

## Output template (paste the filled template into the submission form)
Problem: TOP-5300033
Title:
Claim type: full solution | full disproof | partial result | conditional result | computational evidence | literature report | exploration
Scope: (exactly what is proved, disproved or found)
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Write-up: (Markdown with LaTeX maths, or TeX)
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