Divisibility properties of generalized Laguerre polynomials (Q963238)

In this well-written paper the authors give an effective upper bounds for the degree \(k\) of divisors of generalized Laguerre polynomials \(L_n^{(\alpha)}(x)\), for \(\alpha=-tn-s-1\) and \(\alpha=tn+s\) with \(t,s\in\mathbb{N}\), \(t=O(\log k)\), \(s=O(k\log k)\) and \(k\) sufficiently large. In the introduction the authors give some information and known facts about Laguerre polynomials \(L_n^{(\alpha)}(x)\). Then, they give some preliminaries on primes and introduce the Newton polygon with the respect to a prime \(p\). After that, using \(p\)-adic arguments, they reduce the problem to finding a prime \(p\) having certain properties. Then, considering cases depending on \(k\), the authors prove the main results.