Ghosh's regular-sequence conjecture for the Casas–Alvero problem

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Let KK be a field, let nn be a positive integer, and set R=K[x1,,xn1]R=K[x_1,\ldots,x_{n-1}]. For j{1,,n1}j\in\{1,\ldots,n-1\}, let Φj:RR\Phi_j:R\to R be given by Φj(xi)=xixj\Phi_j(x_i)=x_i-x_j for iji\neq j and Φj(xj)=xj\Phi_j(x_j)=-x_j, while Φn\Phi_n is the identity. Let σi(x1,,xn1)\sigma_i(x_1,\ldots,x_{n-1}) be the ii-th elementary symmetric function, set T={1,,n}n1\mathcal T=\{1,\ldots,n\}^{n-1}, and for T=(j1,,jn1)TT=(j_1,\ldots,j_{n-1})\in\mathcal T define GT,i=Φji(σi(x1,,xn1))G_{T,i}=\Phi_{j_i}(\sigma_i(x_1,\ldots,x_{n-1})). Ghosh's regular-sequence conjecture. For every choice of TTT\in\mathcal T, the sequence of homogeneous polynomials

(GT,1,,GT,n1)(G_{T,1},\ldots,G_{T,n-1})

forms a regular sequence in RR. This is an equivalent algebraic formulation of the Casas–Alvero conjecture over arbitrary fields. The paper attributes this formulation to Soham Ghosh; its general validity remains open.

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Daniel Schaub and Mark Spivakovsky, “A description of and an upper bound on the set of bad primes in the study of the Casas-Alvero Conjecture”, arXiv:2411.13967 (2024).

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