Generalized Wieferich primes and monogenic trinomials
Number Theory
2026-07-31 v1
Abstract
Let be an integer and let be a prime. We say that is a {\em generalized Wieferich prime base }, or more succinctly, a {\em base- Wieferich prime,} if . When , is also known simply as a Wieferich prime. Let be a monic polynomial of degree . We say that is monogenic if is irreducible over and is a basis for the ring of integers of , where . Recently, the third author proved that is monogenic if and only if is not a Wieferich prime. In this article, we generalize this result to with certain restrictions on and .
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@article{arxiv.2607.29329,
title = {Generalized Wieferich primes and monogenic trinomials},
author = {Amy Falk and Joshua Harrington and Lenny Jones},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.29329},
year = {2026}
}