Constraints on counterexamples to the Casas-Alvero conjecture and a verification in degree 12

DOI10.1090/S0025-5718-2014-02809-3MaRDI QIDQ3189463zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Wouter Castryck, Robert Laterveer, Myriam Ounaïes

Publication date 10 September 2014

Published in Mathematics of Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5404

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational aspects in algebraic geometry (14Q99) Polynomials in real and complex fields: location of zeros (algebraic theorems) (12D10)

Abstract: In a first (theoretical) part of this paper, we prove a number of constraints on hypothetical counterexamples to the Casas-Alvero conjecture, building on ideas of Graf von Bothmer, Labs, Schicho and van de Woestijne that were recently reinterpreted by Draisma and de Jong in terms of $p$-adic valuations. In a second (computational) part, we present ideas improving upon Diaz-Toca and Gonzalez-Vega's Gr"obner basis approach to the Casas-Alvero conjecture. One application is an extension of the proof of Graf von Bothmer et al. to the cases $5p^k$, $6p^k$ and $7p^k$ (that is, for each of these cases, we elaborate the finite list of primes $p$ for which their proof is not applicable). Finally, by combining both parts, we settle the Casas-Alvero conjecture in degree 12 (the smallest open case).

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