The complete-symmetric-polynomial regular-sequence conjecture for three variables

Let hk(3)h_k(3) be the complete symmetric polynomial of degree kk in three variables, and for A={a,b,c}A=\{a,b,c\} with a<b<ca<b<c let hA(3)h_A(3) denote the set of polynomials ha(3),hb(3),hc(3)h_a(3),h_b(3),h_c(3). The complete-symmetric-polynomial regular-sequence conjecture. The set hA(3)h_A(3) is a regular sequence if and only if all of the following conditions hold:

  1. abc0(mod6)abc\equiv0\pmod{6}.
  2. GCD(a+1,b+1,c+1)=1\operatorname{GCD}(a+1,b+1,c+1)=1.
  3. For every tNt\in\mathbb{N} with t>2t>2, there exists dAd\in A such that d+2≢0,1(modt)d+2\not\equiv0,1\pmod{t}.

This conjecture proposes a complete arithmetic characterization of regular sequences formed by three complete symmetric polynomials in three variables; the source presents it without claiming a proof.

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Aldo Conca, Christian Krattenthaler and Junzo Watanabe, “Regular sequences of symmetric polynomials”, arXiv:0801.2662 (2018).

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