Akiyama–Pethő integrality conjecture for contractive-polynomial volumes

Let Ed(s)\mathcal{E}_d^{(s)} be the set of coefficient vectors of monic degree-dd real polynomials whose roots include exactly ss pairs of nonreal conjugates, and let

vd(s)=λd(Ed(s)),vd(0)=λd(Ed(0)).v_d^{(s)}=\lambda_d(\mathcal{E}_d^{(s)}),\qquad v_d^{(0)}=\lambda_d(\mathcal{E}_d^{(0)}).

Here dd is the polynomial degree and sd/2s\leq d/2. Akiyama–Pethő integrality conjecture. The quotient

vd(s)vd(0)\frac{v_d^{(s)}}{v_d^{(0)}}

is an integer for all sd/2s\leq d/2. The volumes are rational, and the quotient is known to be an odd integer when s=0s=0; integrality in the general case was proposed on the basis of numerical experiments.

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Primary source

Peter Kirschenhofer and Jörg Thuswaldner, “Distribution results on polynomials with bounded roots”, arXiv:1609.06947 (2017).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2016). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1405.1530.

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