Poisson distribution conjecture for six-packs of consecutive pth powers
Poisson distribution conjecture for six-packs of consecutive pth powers
For each prime , let be the polynomial defined in the paper, and let be the relative density of primes for which has exactly roots; equivalently, there are exactly pairs of consecutive th powers modulo . Six-pack distribution conjecture. For every ,
while for all . In particular, the relative densities of and are respectively and . This conjecture formalizes the heuristic that the number of nontrivial six-packs follows a Poisson distribution with parameter , together with the distribution of primes modulo ; it is not proved in the paper.
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David W. Boyd, Greg Martin and Mark Thom, “Squarefree values of trinomial discriminants”, arXiv:1402.5148 (2014).
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