Probabilistic Galois theory of reciprocal polynomials

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Authors S. H. Smith

Publication date 19 July 1999

Published in Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Galois grouplarge sieve inequalityprobabilistic Galois theoryreciprocal polynomials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galois theory (11R32) Separable extensions, Galois theory (12F10)

Review text

A polynomial \(f(X)\in \mathbb{Q}[X]\) is called reciprocal if \(f(X)= X^nf(1/X)\). Let \(n= 2m\) be even. The Galois group of a reciprocal polynomial is a subgroup of the semidirect product of \((\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})^m\) with the symmetric group \({\mathfrak S}_m\) on \(m\) letters. Denote the latter group by \({\mathcal G}\). The purpose of the paper under review is to show that the Galois group of a randomly chosen reciprocal polynomial is likely to be \({\mathcal G}\), hence as large as possible. More precisely, we get the following result. Let \({\mathcal E}(N)\) be the number of reciprocal polynomials \(f\) of degree \(2m\) with Galois group a proper subgroup of \({\mathcal G}\) and such that any coefficient of \(f\) is an integer between \(-N\) and \(N\). Then \[ {\mathcal E}(N)\ll N^{m- 1/2}\log N \] with the implied constant depending only on \(m\). The main tool in the proof is a multidimensional form of the large sieve inequality.

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