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On the Galois group of generalized Laguerre polynomials

Farshid Hajir (2005)

Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux

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Using the theory of Newton Polygons, we formulate a simple criterion for the Galois group of a polynomial to be “large.” For a fixed α - < 0 , Filaseta and Lam have shown that the n th degree Generalized Laguerre Polynomial L n ( α ) ( x ) = j = 0 n n + α n - j ( - x ) j / j ! is irreducible for all large enough n . We use our criterion to show that, under these conditions, the Galois group of L n ( α ) ( x ) is either the alternating or symmetric group on n letters, generalizing results of Schur for α = 0 , 1 , ± 1 2 , - 1 - n .

Differential Galois realization of double covers

Teresa Crespo, Zbigniew Hajto (2002)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

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An effective construction of homogeneous linear differential equations of order 2 with Galois group 2 A 4 , 2 S 4 or 2 A 5 is presented.

Finiteness results for Hilbert's irreducibility theorem

Peter Müller (2002)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

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Let k be a number field, 𝒪 k its ring of integers, and f ( t , X ) k ( t ) [ X ] be an irreducible polynomial. Hilbert’s irreducibility theorem gives infinitely many integral specializations t t ¯ 𝒪 k such that f ( t ¯ , X ) is still irreducible. In this paper we study the set Red f ( 𝒪 k ) of those t ¯ 𝒪 k with f ( t ¯ , X ) reducible. We show that Red f ( 𝒪 k ) is a finite set under rather weak assumptions. In particular, previous results obtained by diophantine approximation techniques, appear as special cases of some of our results. Our method is different. We use elementary...