The conjecture on three rational linear factors of trinomials
Let , and consider trinomials defined over . Their reducibility type records the degrees of their irreducible factors over ; in particular, type means that they have three distinct rational roots and one remaining factor of degree .
Three-linear-factor conjecture. There are no trinomials defined over with reducibility type .
For odd , the claim is connected with the rational points on the curve defined by , whose genus is ; the authors state that they do not know how to prove that its trivial points are complete. The even- case is ruled out by Descartes' rule of signs, so the conjectural content concerns the remaining cases.
References
Primary source
Andrew Bremner and Maciej Ulas, “On the reducibility type of trinomials”, arXiv:1112.4267 (2011).
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