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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
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- Subject: Re: Roots Of Integer Poly's
- Summary: What is the question?
- Message-ID: <54890@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 17:50:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.113837.3173@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> u7023595@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au writes:
- >>In article <1992Jul21.172356.3167@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>,
- >>u7023595@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au writes:
- >>>In article <4547@balrog.ctron.com>, wilson@ctron.com (David Wilson) writes:
-
- >>>>I wonder if any one out there knows anything on the following.
-
- >>>>Let F(x) be a monic polynomial with integer coeff's of degree n.
- >>>>Let F(x) have roots \alpha_{1}, ... , \alpha_{n} is there a
- >>>>constant C depending only on n such that
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- >>>> | \alpha_{j} - \alpha_{i} | >= C
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- >>>>For all i,j. Ie the roots cannot be too close together.
- >>>>This is trivially true for n=1 or n=2 but what about general n ?
-
- >>> [Stuff deleted]
-
-
- >> WLOG assume the monic polynomial is irreducible over the rationals as
- >> this is the interesting case.
- >I meant the maximum of the absolute values of
- > |\alpha_j - \alpha_i| for all i,j.
- >Then one has C=\sqrt(3), etc. as in my previous posting. If one is interested
- >in the minimum of these absolute values then no such C exists but that is
- >another question.
-
-
- But that was the original question. Consider the following example:
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- x^3 - A*x^2 + 1 = 0.
-
- Since every rational root is 1 or -1, this is irreducible if A is not 0 or 2.
- Let 1/A = v^2. Then for v small, the equation, written in the form
-
- x^2 = v^2 + v^2 * x^3,
-
- has a solution which is given by a convergent power series in v. This
- series is
-
- x = v + v^4/2 + (5/8)*v^7 + ... .
-
- Thus, the sums for the positive square root v and the negative square root
- are both roots of the equation, and they differ by 2*v + (5/4)*v^7 + ...
- Clearly, this can be made arbitrarily small.
- --
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