Advanced Search

In this paper we study an action $D$ of the absolute Galois group $\Gamma =Gal(\overline{\mathbb{Q}}/\mathbb{Q})$ on bicolored plane trees. In distinction with the similar action provided by the Grothendieck theory of “Dessins d’enfants” the action $D$ is induced by the action of $\Gamma$ on equivalence classes of conservative polynomials which are the simplest examples of postcritically finite rational functions. We establish some basic properties of the action $D$ and compare it with the Grothendieck action.