Second-iterate irreducibility conjecture for quadratic polynomials over the Gaussian rationals

Let Z[i]\mathbb{Z}[i] be the Gaussian integers and let KK be the field over which irreducibility and stability are considered. For cZ[i]\{0,1}c\in\mathbb{Z}[i]\backslash\{0,-1\}, set r=1/cr=1/c and fr(x)=x2+rf_r(x)=x^2+r. The polynomial frf_r is stable over KK when frn(x)f_r^n(x) is irreducible over KK for every n1n\ge1.

Second-iterate irreducibility conjecture. If fr2(x)f_r^2(x) is irreducible over KK, then frf_r is stable over KK.

This is presented as the Z[i]\mathbb{Z}[i] analogue of an earlier conjecture over Q\mathbb{Q}. It asserts that irreducibility of the second iterate prevents reducibility at every later iterate, but no resolution is supplied here.

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Jermain McDermott, “Stable quadratic polynomials over Q(i)”, arXiv:2606.25250 (2026).

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