Irreducibility of Littlewood Polynomials of Special Degrees

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2025-11

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Bary-Soroker, Lior
Hokken, David
Kozma, Gady
Poonen, Bjorn

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Abstract

Let f be sampled uniformly at random from the set of degree n polynomials whose coefficients lie in {±1}. A folklore conjecture, known to hold under GRH, states that the probability that f is irreducible tends to 1 as n goes to infinity. We prove unconditionally that (Formula presented).

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General Mathematics

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Bary-Soroker, L, Hokken, D, Kozma, G & Poonen, B 2025, 'Irreducibility of Littlewood Polynomials of Special Degrees', International Mathematics Research Notices, vol. 2025, no. 21, rnaf326. https://doi.org/10.1093/imrn/rnaf326