Divisibility by powers of the new factors of Gram determinants

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Let GnG_n be the Gram matrix and let HnH_n denote the factors of det⁡Gn\det G_n not occurring in det⁡Gn−1\det G_{n-1}, so that

Hn∣det⁡Gn,gcd⁡(Hn,det⁡Gn−1)=0.H_n\mid\det G_n,\qquad \gcd(H_n,\det G_{n-1})=0.

New-factor divisibility conjecture. For the resulting sequence of factors,

(Hn−1)2n∣det⁡Gn.(H_{n-1})^{2n}\mid\det G_n.

The conjecture is motivated by observations for det⁡G1\det G_1 and det⁡G2\det G_2 and is part of the paper's speculative factorization program; no proof or resolution is supplied.

References

Primary source

Jozef H. Przytycki and Xiaoqi Zhu, “Gram determinant of planar curves”, arXiv:0810.4649 (2008).

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