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Minimally Intersective Polynomials with Arbitrarily Many Quadratic Factors

Number Theory 2022-07-19 v2

Abstract

Given a natural number n4n \geq 4 we show that there exists infinitely many polynomials fn(x):=i=1n(x2ai)f_{n}(x):= \prod_{i=1}^{n} (x^{2} - a_{i}) such that (i) fn(x)f_{n}(x) has a root modulo every positive integer, (ii) fn(x)f_{n}(x) has no rational roots, and (iii) every proper divisor of fn(x)f_{n}(x) fails to have root modulo some positive integer. We exhibit a process to explicitly construct such fnf_{n} and this process demonstrates that the set of natural numbers ana_{n}, such that the polynomial fn(x):=i=1n(x2ai)f_{n}(x):= \prod_{i=1}^{n} (x^{2} - a_{i}) satisfies the properties (i), (ii) and (iii), is of positive asymptotic density in N\mathbb{N}.

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@article{arxiv.2102.09129,
  title  = {Minimally Intersective Polynomials with Arbitrarily Many Quadratic Factors},
  author = {Bhawesh Mishra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.09129},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Improved exposition and correction of some computational errors

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