Minimally Intersective Polynomials with Arbitrarily Many Quadratic Factors

Publication date 17 February 2021

Abstract: Given a natural number

n g e q 4

we show that there exists infinitely many polynomials

f_{n} (x) := p r o d_{i = 1}^{n} (x^{2} - a_{i})

such that (i)

f_{n} (x)

has a root modulo every positive integer, (ii)

f_{n} (x)

has no rational roots, and (iii) every proper divisor of

f_{n} (x)

fails to have root modulo some positive integer. We exhibit a process to explicitly construct such

f_{n}

and this process demonstrates that the set of natural numbers

a_{n}

, such that the polynomial

f_{n} (x) := p r o d_{i = 1}^{n} (x^{2} - a_{i})

satisfies the properties (i), (ii) and (iii), is of positive asymptotic density in

m a t h b b N

.

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