An analogue of Lehmer's conjecture for bounded-coefficient polynomial sequences

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Let N1N\geq 1 be a natural number, and let P2n+2lP_{2n+2l} be a sequence of integer polynomials defined in the source's equation (with coefficients bounded in modulus by NN). Its limit ratio is the limiting ratio of the number of nonunimodular roots of P2n+2l(x)P_{2n+2l}(x) to its degree, when this limit exists. Analogue of Lehmer's conjecture. There is a constant c(N)>0c(N)>0 such that any such sequence whose limit ratio is strictly below c(N)c(N) has limit ratio equal to 00. The claim proposes a Lehmer-type gap near zero for limit ratios of sequences with uniformly bounded coefficients; the supplied text gives computational and theorem-based support but does not state that the claim has been proved or disproved.

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Dragan Stankov, “The alternative to Mahler measure of a multivariate polynomial”, arXiv:2502.02803 (2025).

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