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Extension of Laguerre polynomials with negative arguments

Number Theory 2021-03-05 v2

Abstract

We consider the irreducibility of polynomial Ln(α)(x)L_n^{(\alpha)} (x) where α\alpha is a negative integer. We observe that the constant term of Ln(α)(x)L_n^{(\alpha)} (x) vanishes if and only if nα=αn \geq |\alpha| = -\alpha. Therefore we assume that α=ns1\alpha = -n-s-1 where ss is a non-negative integer. Let g(x)=(1)nLn(ns1)(x)=j=0najxjj! g(x) = (-1)^n L_n^{(-n-s-1)}(x) = \sum\limits_{j=0}^{n} a_j \frac{x^j}{j!} and more general polynomial, let G(x)=j=0najbjxjj! G(x) = \sum\limits_{j=0}^{n} a_j b_j \frac{x^j}{j!} where bjb_j with 0jn0 \leq j \leq n are integers such that b0=bn=1|b_0| = |b_n| = 1. Schur was the first to prove the irreducibility of g(x)g(x) for s=0s=0. It has been proved that g(x)g(x) is irreducibile for 0s600 \leq s \leq 60. In this paper, by a different method, we prove : Apart from finitely many explicitely given posibilities, either G(x)G(x) is irreducible or G(x)G(x) is linear factor times irreducible polynomial. This is a consequence of the estimate s>1.9ks > 1.9 k whenever G(x)G(x) has a factor of degree k2k \geq 2 and (n,k,s)(10,5,4)(n,k,s) \neq (10,5,4). This sharpens earlier estimates of Shorey and Tijdeman and Nair and Shorey.

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@article{arxiv.2103.02353,
  title  = {Extension of Laguerre polynomials with negative arguments},
  author = {T. N. Shorey and Sneh Bala Sinha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.02353},
  year   = {2021}
}

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