Prime-degree extremal polynomial conjecture in the 5 modulo 6 case

Let d17d\geq 17 be prime with d5(mod6)d\equiv 5\pmod 6. Define

Pd(x)=xd+2x21x2x+1.P_d(x)=\frac{x^{d+2}-x^2-1}{x^2-x+1}.

Let an algebraic integer of degree dd that is not a root of unity be extremal if it has the minimum possible house among such algebraic integers. Prime-degree extremal polynomial conjecture. The extremal α\alpha has minimal polynomial Pd(x)P_d(x).

The polynomial is established in the source to have a real root between 11 and 2d\sqrt[d]{2}, with its ddth power tending to 22; computations for d=17d=17 and 2323 motivate the conjecture. No resolution status is given.

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

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