Binomial-coefficient random polynomial reducibility conjecture

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Let hBin,K,d(x)=xd+ad−1xd−1+⋯+a1x+a0h_{\mathrm{Bin},K,d}(x)=x^d+a_{d-1}x^{d-1}+\dots+a_1x+a_0 be a random monic polynomial whose coefficients a0,…,ad−1a_0,\dots,a_{d-1} are independently chosen from [0,K][0,K] according to the Bin⁡(K,1/K)\operatorname{Bin}(K,1/K) distribution. Binomial reducibility conjecture. The probability that hBin,K,d(x)h_{\mathrm{Bin},K,d}(x) is reducible, divided by the probability that its constant coefficient is zero, goes to 11 as KK goes to infinity. This is proposed as a case of the paper's universality heuristic, in a model where the zero constant coefficient supplies the dominant obvious source of reducibility.

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Christian Borst, Evan Boyd, Claire Brekken, Samantha Solberg, Melanie Matchett Wood and Philip Matchett Wood, “Irreducibility of Random Polynomials”, arXiv:1705.03709 (2017).

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