The new density conjecture for symmetric pairs of roots
The new density conjecture for symmetric pairs of roots
Let be a polynomial of degree . For a prime in , number the roots of modulo as
For a subset , write for the limiting frequency table of the quantities over splitting primes, when this limit exists. The new density conjecture. Suppose that is not equal to for any quadratic polynomial . Then, for every with , one has
Here denotes . The statement is presented as a conjecture based on numerical experiments; it predicts an equal limiting frequency for the two possible values of the sum of each symmetric pair of normalized roots, subject to the stated non-composition hypothesis.
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Primary source
Yoshiyuki Kitaoka, “Statistical distribution of roots of a polynomial modulo primes”, arXiv:1706.08636 (2017).
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