Polynomials with integral Mahler measures (Q6574904)

The Mahler measure of a nonzero polynomial \(P\)\ with coefficients in the complex field \(\mathbb{C}\) is given by\N\[\NM(P)=\left\vert a\right\vert \prod_{k=1}^{d}\max (1,\left\vert \alpha _{k}\right\vert ),\N\]\Nwhere \(P\) \ factorizes in \(\mathbb{C}[z]\) as \(P(z)=a(z-\alpha _{1})(z-\alpha _{2})\cdot \cdot \cdot (z-\alpha _{d}).\) In particular, if \(\min_{1\leq k\leq d}\left\vert \alpha _{k}\right\vert >1,\) then \(M(P)=\left\vert P(0)\right\vert \) and the polynomial \(P\) is said to be expanding.\N\NThe aim of paper under review is to evaluate the cardinality of certain classes of integer polynomials with degree \(d\) and Mahler's measure equal to a natural number \(n.\) Mainly, the author shows that for each \(n\in \mathbb{N}\) and each sufficiently large natural number \(d\) there are at most \(\exp \left( 11(nd)^{2/3}(\log (nd))^{4/3}\right) \) integer polynomials of degree \(d\) and Mahler's measure \(n.\) Also, he proves that the number of monic integer irreducible expanding polynomials of degree \(d\) with constant coefficient \(2\) is at least \(cd^{2},\) where \(c\) is an absolute positive constant, and generally for each integer \(n\geq 3\) there is a constant \(c(n)>0\) such that for each sufficiently large \(d\in \mathbb{N}\) the number of monic integer irreducible expanding polynomials of degree \(d\) with constant coefficient \(n\) is at least \(c(n)d^{n-1}.\)