Sah's radical conjecture for polynomial least common multiples

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Let fZ[x]f\in\mathbb{Z}[x] be an irreducible polynomial of degree d2d\geq 2, and define

Lf(N)=lcm(f(1),f(2),,f(N)),L_f(N)=\operatorname{lcm}(f(1),f(2),\ldots,f(N)),

and

f(N)=rad(Lf(N))=pf(1)f(2)f(N)\p primep.\ell_f(N)=\operatorname{rad}(L_f(N))=\prod_{\substack{p\mid f(1)f(2)\cdots f(N)\p\ \mathrm{prime}}}p.

Sah's conjecture. As NN\to\infty,

logf(N)logLf(N)(d1)NlogN.\log\ell_f(N)\sim\log L_f(N)\sim (d-1)N\log N.

Sah's conjecture asserts that the radical has the same leading asymptotic as the least common multiple, a strengthening of the available lower bounds for both quantities.

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Primary source

Alexei Entin, “Lower Bounds on the Least Common Multiple of a Polynomial Sequence and its Radical”, arXiv:2401.05184 (2025).

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