A Dynamical Lifting Problem For Additive Polynomials

Abstract

We introduce a dynamical analogue of the lifting problem for Galois covers of algebraic curves and find a negative solution for the collection of additive, separable polynomials over ${\overline{\mathbb{F}}}_p$. We also explicitly compute the dimension of the space of linear conjugacy classes in $M_{p^m}({\overline{\mathbb{F}}}_p)$ which contain an additive, separable polynomial.