Square-root recurrence conjecture for extremal reciprocal algebraic integers

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Let mr(d)\mathrm{mr}(d) be the minimum of the houses of reciprocal algebraic integers of degree dd that are not roots of unity. An algebraic integer attaining mr(d)\mathrm{mr}(d) is called extremal reciprocal. If its minimal polynomial is denoted by Rd(x)R_d(x), then, for even d8d\geq 8, the square-root recurrence conjecture states that an extremal reciprocal α\alpha of degree dd gives an extremal reciprocal α\sqrt{\alpha} of degree 2d2d, with

R2d(x)=Rd(x2).R_{2d}(x)=R_d(x^2).

The claim is suggested by computations through even degree 3434 and describes a recurrence for the extremal reciprocal polynomials. No resolution status is given in the source.

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Dragan Stankov, “The House of a Reciprocal Algebraic Integer”, arXiv:1806.06424 (2018).

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