Irreducibility conjecture for even sorted binomial polynomials

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Let Pn(z)P_n(z) be the sorted binomial polynomial with parameter nn. Irreducibility conjecture. Pn(z)P_n(z) is irreducible over Q\mathbb{Q} for all even nn. The analogous factorization for odd nn has just been proved in the surrounding text, while this even-nn assertion is supported only by numerical computations for low nn.

References

Primary source

Owen John Levens, “Polynomials Arising from Sorted Binomial Coefficients”, arXiv:2511.03082 (2025).

Additional references

12 papers in this index state this conjecture (2006–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2402.00739, arXiv:2308.14202, arXiv:2206.11778, arXiv:2004.00233, arXiv:1912.12253, arXiv:1701.01160, arXiv:1502.07307, arXiv:1408.4881, arXiv:1001.2873, arXiv:0804.0112, arXiv:math/0605318.

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