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Full Galois groups of polynomials with slowly growing coefficients

Number Theory 2024-12-31 v2

Abstract

Choose a polynomial ff uniformly at random from the set of all monic polynomials of degree nn with integer coefficients in the box [L,L]n[-L,L]^n. The main result of the paper asserts that if L=L(n)L=L(n) grows to infinity, then the Galois group of ff is the full symmetric group, asymptotically almost surely, as nn\to \infty. When LL grows rapidly to infinity, say L>n7L>n^7, this theorem follows from a result of Gallagher. When LL is bounded, the analog of the theorem is open, while the state-of-the-art is that the Galois group is large in the sense that it contains the alternating group (if L<17L< 17, it is conditional on the general Riemann hypothesis). Hence the most interesting case of the theorem is when LL grows slowly to infinity. Our method works for more general independent coefficients.

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@article{arxiv.2404.13559,
  title  = {Full Galois groups of polynomials with slowly growing coefficients},
  author = {Lior Bary-Soroker and Noam Goldgraber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.13559},
  year   = {2024}
}

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