Abstract: We investigate the behavior of periodic points of polynomials $x^2+c \in \mathbb F_p[x]$, particularly the irreducibility of dynatomic polynomials. We then relate these statistics of irreducibility to transitive Galois actions on periodic portraits, and more generally, compare factorization types of dynatomic polynomials to orbit partitions of cyclic group actions on periodic portraits.
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