Turán's distance-two conjecture for irreducible integer polynomials

Let f(x)Z[x]f(x)\in\mathbb{Z}[x] have degree n1n\geq 1. Define L(fg)=j=0nbjajL(f-g)=\sum_{j=0}^{n}|b_j-a_j| when f(x)=j=0najxjf(x)=\sum_{j=0}^{n}a_jx^j and g(x)=j=0nbjxjg(x)=\sum_{j=0}^{n}b_jx^j. Turán's distance-two conjecture. There is an irreducible polynomial g(x)Z[x]g(x)\in\mathbb{Z}[x] of degree at most nn satisfying

L(fg)2.L(f-g)\leq 2.

This is the integer-polynomial version of Turán's problem on approximating every polynomial by an irreducible polynomial with bounded coefficient distance. The existence of an absolute bound is connected to an open covering-system problem, and the distance-two assertion is presented as a conjecture; its resolution is not specified here.

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Michael Filaseta and Richard A. Moy, “The Distance to a Squarefree Polynomial Over F_2[x]”, arXiv:1906.07904 (2019).

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