Casas–Alvero conjecture for univariate polynomials

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Let KK be a field, and let fK[x]f\in K[x] be a non-constant monic univariate polynomial of degree nn. For 1in11\leq i\leq n-1, write Hi(f)H_i(f) for its ii-th Hasse derivative, and call ff a Casas–Alvero polynomial if ff has a non-constant common factor with each Hi(f)H_i(f). Casas–Alvero conjecture. Assume that charK=0\operatorname{char} K=0. If fK[x]f\in K[x] is a Casas–Alvero polynomial of degree nn, then there exists bKb\in K such that

f(x)=(xb)n.f(x)=(x-b)^n.

The conjecture predicts that the common-factor condition with all Hasse derivatives forces every root of ff 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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