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

DOI10.1090/S0025-5718-2014-02809-3zbMATH Open1328.12001arXiv1208.5404OpenAlexW1991788567WikidataQ122905761 ScholiaQ122905761MaRDI QIDQ3189463FDOQ3189463

Authors: Wouter Castryck, Robert Laterveer, Myriam Ounaïes 

Publication date: 10 September 2014

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

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).

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

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Magma

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