Positive-proportion conjecture for irreducible polynomials in quadratic semigroups

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Let S={x2+c1,…,x2+cr}S=\{x^2+c_1,\dots,x^2+c_r\} for some distinct c1,…,cr∈Qc_1,\dots,c_r\in\mathbb{Q} and r≥2r\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.

References

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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