Unimodality conjecture for coefficients of constructed polynomial Pythagorean triples
Unimodality conjecture for coefficients of constructed polynomial Pythagorean triples
A polynomial solution is constructed for each standard Pythagorean triple, where , , and are polynomials in . A sequence of real numbers is unimodal if it increases, not necessarily strictly, to a maximum and then decreases monotonically. Unimodality conjecture. The sequences of coefficients of the polynomials , , and constructed in this article are unimodal. The authors cannot guarantee this additional property; unimodality is generally difficult to prove. The analogous property for -deformed rational numbers was conjectured previously and proved in the cited work.
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Primary source
Hugo Mathevet, Sophie Morier-Genoud and Valentin Ovsienko, “Quantizing Pythagorean triples”, arXiv:2602.20536 (2026).
Additional references
32 papers in this index state this conjecture (2002–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2507.15006, arXiv:2506.08883, arXiv:2505.09821, arXiv:2502.02974, arXiv:2412.19593, arXiv:2406.14439, arXiv:2310.14368, arXiv:2305.15802, arXiv:2203.00405, arXiv:2108.12979, arXiv:2102.07083, arXiv:2012.11813, and 19 more.
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