A gcd bound for values of two algebraic polynomials at powers of the base

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Let b≥2b\geq 2 be the fixed integer base. Let ϵ>0\epsilon>0, let k,lk,l be positive integers, and let

f(x)=akxk+⋯+a1x+a0,f(x)=a_kx^k+\cdots+a_1x+a_0, g(x)=clxl+⋯+c1x+c0,g(x)=c_lx^l+\cdots+c_1x+c_0,

be polynomials with real algebraic coefficients, where aka_k and clc_l are linearly independent over Q\mathbb{Q}. The gcd conjecture. For all sufficiently large n∈Nn\in\mathbb{N},

gcd⁡([f(bn)],[g(bn)])<bϵn.\operatorname{gcd}([f(b^n)],[g(b^n)])<b^{\epsilon n}.

This is proposed as a generalization of a preceding theorem concerning one polynomial and remains an open problem in the source.

References

Primary source

Xianzu Lin, “b-ary expansions of algebraic numbers”, arXiv:1701.08503 (2017).

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