Asymptotic symmetry conjecture for coefficients of cyclotomic polynomials

Let AA be the set of points (c,n)(c,n) such that cc is a nontrivial coefficient of Φn\Phi_n, and let AkA_k consist of those points in AA with nkn\leq k. For each kk, write [ck,ck]×[0,nk][-c_k,c_k]\times[0,n_k] for the smallest rectangle containing AkA_k. Let Ak+A_k^+ and AkA_k^- be the subsets of AkA_k with positive and negative first coordinate, respectively. If SS is a finite subset of the upper half-plane, let SS^\sharp denote its reflection across the nn-axis; for c,n>0c',n'>0, let [c,n]S={(c/c,n/n):(c,n)S}[c',n']S=\{(c/c',n/n'):(c,n)\in S\}, and let H\mathcal H be the Hausdorff distance in [0,1]2[0,1]^2. Asymptotic symmetry conjecture. For every positive integer kk, there are subsets LkAk+L_k\subseteq A_k^+ and MkAkM_k\subseteq A_k^- such that

limkH([ck,nk]Lk,([ck,nk]Mk))=0\lim_{k\to\infty}\mathcal H\left([c_k,n_k]L_k,\bigl([c_k,n_k]M_k\bigr)^\sharp\right)=0

and

limkAk+Lk=limkAkMk=1.\lim_{k\to\infty}\frac{|A_k^+|}{|L_k|}=\lim_{k\to\infty}\frac{|A_k^-|}{|M_k|}=1.

The conjecture formalizes the observed increasing symmetry of the positive and negative nontrivial coefficient plots after normalization. A similar conjecture is made for the family {Bk}\{B_k\} of points corresponding to all coefficients described in the paper; its precise statement is not supplied here.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Marcin Mazur and Bogdan V. Petrenko, “Some properties of coefficients of cyclotomic polynomials”, arXiv:1902.04631 (2019).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.