The four-power-sum regular-sequence conjecture

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Let KK be a field of characteristic zero, let S=K[x1,x2,x3,x4]S=K[x_1,x_2,x_3,x_4], and write pm=x1m+x2m+x3m+x4mp_m=x_1^m+x_2^m+x_3^m+x_4^m. Let A={a1,a2,a3,a4}A=\{a_1,a_2,a_3,a_4\} be a set of positive integers with gcd(a1,a2,a3,a4)=1\operatorname{gcd}(a_1,a_2,a_3,a_4)=1, and let ν2\nu_2 denote the 22-adic valuation. The four-power-sum conjecture. The polynomials pa1,pa2,pa3,pa4p_{a_1},p_{a_2},p_{a_3},p_{a_4} form a regular sequence if and only if all of the following hold: 2424 divides a1a2a3a4a_1a_2a_3a_4; the set {ν2(ai)aiA}\{\nu_2(a_i)\mid a_i\in A\} contains at least two distinct positive integers; and AA contains no subset of the form {d,2d,5d}\{d,2d,5d\} for any dNd\in\mathbb{N}. The conditions are stated to be necessary and independent, but the conjecture is not resolved in the source.

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Aldo Conca, Anurag K. Singh and Kannan Soundararajan, “Ideals generated by power sums”, arXiv:2409.18906 (2024).

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