Non-injectivity of Nonzero Discriminant Polynomials and Applications to Packing Polynomials
Number Theory
2021-02-09 v1
Abstract
We show that an integer-valued quadratic polynomial on can not be injective on the integer lattice points of any affine convex cone if its discriminant is nonzero. A consequence is the non-existence of quadratic packing polynomials on irrational sectors of .
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@article{arxiv.2102.03392,
title = {Non-injectivity of Nonzero Discriminant Polynomials and Applications to Packing Polynomials},
author = {Kåre Schou Gjaldbæk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.03392},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
8 pages, 2 figures. To be published in Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory IV