Conjecture on multiple roots of sums of products of consecutive integers
Conjecture on multiple roots of sums of products of consecutive integers
Let and let , where is the set of strictly increasing tuples with entries less than . Define
Multiple-root conjecture. The polynomial has multiple roots if and only if one of the following holds: (1) for , with ; (2) for , with ; or (3) for , with . In each case, the corresponding cofactor has no multiple roots. The conjecture is motivated by computations and is intended to characterize the multiple-root configurations governing finiteness results for the associated Diophantine equations; no proof or resolution is supplied.
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Szabolcs Tengely and Maciej Ulas, “Power values of sums of certain products of consecutive integers and related results”, arXiv:1809.04304 (2018).
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