Positive-proportion conjecture for irreducible polynomials in quadratic semigroups

Let S={x2+c1,,x2+cr}S=\{x^2+c_1,\dots,x^2+c_r\} for some distinct c1,,crQc_1,\dots,c_r\in\mathbb{Q} and r2r\geq2. Let MSM_S denote the semigroup generated by SS under composition, and call a subset of MSM_S a positive-proportion set if its proportion among elements of bounded degree has positive lower limit. Positive-proportion conjecture. MSM_S contains a positive proportion of irreducible polynomials if and only if it contains at least one irreducible polynomial. This extends the established integer-coefficient result to rational parameters; the rational case is presented as an open problem, and the source explicitly notes that this case remains open.

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Primary source

Wade Hindes, Reiyah Jacobs, Benjamin Keller, Albert Kim, Peter Ye and Aaron Zhou, “On the proportion of irreducible polynomials in unicritically generated semigroups”, arXiv:2308.14202 (2023).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2108.11233, arXiv:2009.11886, arXiv:1904.00116.

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