On the arithmetic and the geometry of skew-reciprocal polynomials

DOI10.1090/PROC/14668MaRDI QIDQ5238095zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Livio Liechti

Publication date 28 October 2019

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04918

zbMATH Keywords

Mahler measuresorientation-reversing mapping classesskew-reciprocal polynomials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomials in number theory (11C08) PV-numbers and generalizations; other special algebraic numbers; Mahler measure (11R06) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)

Abstract: We reformulate Lehmer's question from 1933 and a question due to Schinzel and Zassenhaus from 1965 in terms of a comparison of the Mahler measures and the houses, respectively, of monic integer reciprocal and skew-reciprocal polynomials of the same degree. This entails that understanding the difference between orientation-preserving and orientation-reversing mapping classes is at least as complicated as answering these questions.

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