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We generalize an approach from a 1960 paper by Ljunggren, leading to a practical algorithm that determines the set of $N > \operatorname{deg}(c) + \operatorname{deg}(d)$ such that the polynomial $$f_N(x) = x^N c(x^{-1}) + d(x)$$ is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-30 William Sawin , Mark Shusterman , Michael Stoll

Let $\mathbf{f} = (f_1, \ldots, f_R)$ be a system of polynomials with integer coefficients in which the degrees need not all be the same. We provide sufficient conditions for which the system of equations $f_j (x_1, \ldots, x_n) = 0 \ (1…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-10 Shuntaro Yamagishi

For positive integers $n>k$, let $P_{n,k}(x)=\displaystyle\sum_{j=0}^k \binom{n}{j}x^j $ be the polynomial obtained by truncating the binomial expansion of $(1+x)^n$ at the $k^{th}$ stage. These polynomials arose in the investigation of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-06-05 Sudesh K. Khanduja , Ramneek Khassa , Shanta Laishram

Cilleruelo conjectured that if $f\in\mathbb{Z}[x]$ is an irreducible polynomial of degree $d\ge 2$ then, $\log \operatorname{lcm} \{f(n)\mid n<x\} \sim (d-1)x\log x.$ In this article, we investigate the analogue of prime arguments, namely,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Ayan Nath , Abhishek Jha

For a polynomial in several variables depending on some parameters, we discuss some results to the effect that for almost all values of the parameters the polynomial is irreducible. In particular we recast in this perspective some results…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-22 Arnaud Bodin , Pierre Dèbes , Salah Najib

Let $f(x)\in \mathbb{F}_q[x]$ be an irreducible polynomial of degree $m$ and exponent $e$, and $n$ be a positive integer such that $\nu_p(q-1)\ge \nu_{p}(e)+\nu_p(n)$ for all $p$ prime divisor of $n$. We show a fast algorithm to determine…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-12-01 F. E. Brochero Martínez , Lucas Reis

We study how often exceptional configurations of irreducible polynomials over finite fields occur in the context of prime number races and Chebyshev's bias. In particular, we show that three types of biases, which we call "complete bias",…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Alexandre Bailleul , Lucile Devin , Daniel Keliher , Wanlin Li

Let $p$ be a prime, let $d \geq 1$ be an integer and $A$ be the algebra of square matrices of size $d$ over the field of order $p$. Let $P, Q \in A[x_1, \dots x_n]$ be polynomials in $n$ indeterminates with coefficients in $A$, such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace , Justin Vast

L. Bary-Soroker and R. Shmueli (2026) have given an asymptotic formula for the number of irreducible polynomials over the finite fields $\mathbb F_q$ of $q$ elements, such that their coefficients are perfect squares in $\mathbb F_q$ and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Alina Ostafe , Igor E. Shparlinski

We prove that hypersurfaces defined by irreducible square-free polynomials have rational singularities. As an easy consequence, we deduce that certain (possibly non-square-free) polynomials associated to pairs of square-free polynomials…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Daniel Bath , Mircea Mustaţă , Uli Walther

The goal of this paper is to prove that a random polynomial with i.i.d. random coefficients taking values uniformly in $\{1,\ldots, 210\}$ is irreducible with probability tending to $1$ as the degree tends to infinity. Moreover, we prove…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Lior Bary-Soroker , Gady Kozma

Let $q\geqslant 2$ be a fixed prime power. We prove an asymptotic formula for counting the number of monic polynomials that are of degree $n$ and have exactly $k$ irreducible factors over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$. We also compare our…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-12 Arghya Datta

Let $p$ be a prime number and let $S=\{x^p+c_1,\dots,x^p+c_r\}$ be a finite set of unicritical polynomials for some $c_1,\dots,c_r\in\mathbb{Z}$. Moreover, assume that $S$ contains at least one irreducible polynomial over $\mathbb{Q}$. Then…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Wade Hindes , Reiyah Jacobs , Benjamin Keller , Albert Kim , Peter Ye , Aaron Zhou

A bracket polynomial on the integers is a function formed using the operations of addition, multiplication and taking fractional parts. For a fairly large class of bracket polynomials we show that if p is a bracket polynomial of degree k-1…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-29 Matthew Tointon

The paper studies the question of existence of polynomials with given roots over associative non-commutative rings with identity. It is shown that in the case of an associative division ring for arbitrary n elements of this ring there…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Alina G. Goutor

In this paper we establish function field versions of two classical conjectures on prime numbers. The first says that the number of primes in intervals (x,x+x^epsilon] is about x^epsilon/log x and the second says that the number of primes…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-03 Efrat Bank , Lior Bary-Soroker , Lior Rosenzweig

Given any positive integer $n,$ let $A(n)$ denote the height of the $n^{\text{th}}$ cyclotomic polynomial, that is its maximum coefficient in absolute value. It is well known that $A(n)$ is unbounded. We conjecture that every natural number…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Alexandre Kosyak , Pieter Moree , Efthymios Sofos , Bin Zhang

Let S=K[x_1,...,x_n] be a polynomial ring. Denote by $p_a$ the power sum symmetric polynomial x_1^a+...+x_n^a. We consider the following two questions: Describe the subsets $A \subset \mathbb{N}$ such that the set of polynomials $p_a$ with…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2013-09-05 Neeraj Kumar

Following an approach presented by N. Frantzikinakis, B. Host and B. Kra, we show that the parameters in the multidimensional Szemer\'edi theorem for closest integer polynomials have non-empty intersection with the set of shifted primes…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Andreas Koutsogiannis

We prove an analogue of the classical Bateman-Horn conjecture on prime values of polynomials for the ring of polynomials over a large finite field. Namely, given non-associate, irreducible, separable and monic (in the variable $x$)…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Alexei Entin