Bremner and Ulas's reducibility-type conjecture for trinomials

Let b,cNb,c\in\mathbb N, and let

f(x)=xn+bϵ1x+cϵ2f(x)=x^n+b\epsilon_1x+c\epsilon_2

be a trinomial of degree n4n\ge 4, where ϵ1,ϵ2{±1}\epsilon_1,\epsilon_2\in\{\pm1\}. A trinomial has reducibility type (n1,n2,,nk)(n_1,n_2,\ldots,n_k) if it is a product of irreducible polynomials in Q[x]\mathbb Q[x] with degrees n1,n2,,nkn_1,n_2,\ldots,n_k.

Bremner and Ulas's conjecture. The reducibility type (1,1,1,n3)(1,1,1,n-3) does not occur for f(x)f(x).

The conjecture is part of the study of possible factor-degree patterns of trinomials. The source reports that the assertion remains a conjectural obstruction for degree n4n\ge4.

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Biswajit Koley and A. Satyanarayana Reddy, “Survey on irreducibility of trinomials”, arXiv:2012.07568 (2020).

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