On the dynamical Galois group of certain affine polynomials in positive characteristic

Abstract

We use explicit class field theory of rational function fields to prove a dynamical criterion for a polynomial of the form $x^{p^r}+ax+b$ over a field of characteristic $p$ to have dynamical Galois group as large as possible. When $p=2$ and $r=1$ this yields an analogue in characteristic $2$ of the celebrated criterion of Stoll for quadratic polynomials over fields of characteristic not $2$.