Casas–Alvero conjecture for univariate polynomials
Casas–Alvero conjecture for univariate polynomials
Let be a field, and let be a non-constant monic univariate polynomial of degree . For , write for its -th Hasse derivative, and call a Casas–Alvero polynomial if has a non-constant common factor with each . Casas–Alvero conjecture. Assume that . If is a Casas–Alvero polynomial of degree , then there exists such that
The conjecture predicts that the common-factor condition with all Hasse derivatives forces every root of to coincide. The paper studies bad primes and gives bounds relevant to reductions of this conjecture, but the characteristic-zero assertion itself is presented here without a resolution.
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Primary source
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).
Additional references
7 papers in this index state this conjecture (2006–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2312.08742, arXiv:2307.05997, arXiv:2206.09197, arXiv:1208.5404, arXiv:1204.0450, arXiv:math/0605090.
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