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A general endomorphism of $\mathbb{P}^k$ has trivial iterated centralizer

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Fix integers $k,d\geq2$. Let $\operatorname{End}_d^k$ denote the parameter space of holomorphic endomorphisms of $\mathbb{P}^k$ of algebraic degree $d$. We prove that there exists a dense Zariski open subset $U_{d,k}\subset\operatorname{End}_d^k$, defined over $\mathbb{Q}$, such that, for every $f\in U_{d,k}(\mathbb{C})$, every nonconstant endomorphism $g:\mathbb{P}^k\to\mathbb{P}^k$ commuting with an iterate of $f$ is itself an iterate of $f$. An analogous dense Zariski open subset exists for regular polynomial endomorphisms of $\mathbb{C}^k$. The proof uses finite-level monodromy and its action on the rooted preimage tree of a point outside the branch locus of an iterate of $f$. As an application, we show that, for a general $f\in\operatorname{End}_d^k$, an irreducible hypersurface of $\mathbb{P}^k$ is $f$-special in the sense of Ghioca--Tucker and DeMarco--Mavraki if and only if it is $f$-preperiodic.

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