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Dynamical Mordell–Lang conjecture for birational polynomial morphisms on \({\mathbb {A}}^2\)

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We prove the dynamical Mordell–Lang conjecture for birational polynomial morphisms on \(\mathbb {A}^2\).

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I would like to thank C. Favre for his support and his direction during the writing of this article.

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Correspondence to Junyi Xie.

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J. Xie is supported by the ERC-starting grant project Nonarcomp no. 307856.

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Xie, J. Dynamical Mordell–Lang conjecture for birational polynomial morphisms on \({\mathbb {A}}^2\) . Math. Ann. 360, 457–480 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-014-1039-1

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