The conjecture on three rational linear factors of trinomials
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.
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Andrew Bremner and Maciej Ulas, “On the reducibility type of trinomials”, arXiv:1112.4267 (2011).
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