The squarefreeness conjecture for the polynomials Fm,nF_{m,n}

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Let m,n∈N+m,n\in\mathbb{N}_{+} with n>2mn>2m and define

Fm,n(t)=An−m(1,t)2−4An−2m(1,t)An(1,t).F_{m,n}(t)=A_{n-m}(1,t)^{2}-4A_{n-2m}(1,t)A_{n}(1,t).

Squarefreeness conjecture. The polynomial Fm,nF_{m,n} has no multiple roots.

This conjecture concerns the discriminant-type polynomials arising in the study of quadratic divisors of the quadrinomials. The source presents it as plausible but does not prove it.

References

Primary source

Andrew Bremner and Maciej Ulas, “Some observations concerning reducibility of quadrinomials”, arXiv:1310.5346 (2013).

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