Nonreciprocal algebraic numbers of small Mahler's measure

Artūras Dubickas¹ ; Jonas Jankauskas¹

¹ Department of Mathematics and Informatics Vilnius University Naugarduko 24 Vilnius LT-03225, Lithuania

Acta Arithmetica, Tome 157 (2013) no. 4, pp. 357-364

Résumé

We prove that there exist at least $cd^5$ monic irreducible nonreciprocal polynomials with integer coefficients of degree at most $d$ whose Mahler measures are smaller than $2$, where $c$ is some absolute positive constant. These polynomials are constructed as nonreciprocal divisors of some Newman hexanomials $1+x^{r_1}+\cdots +x^{r_5}$, where the integers $1 \leq r_1 \cdots r_5 \leq d$ satisfy some restrictions including $2r_j r_{j+1}$ for $j=1,2,3,4$. This result improves the previous lower bound $cd^3$ and seems to be closer to the correct value of this function in $d$ than the best known upper bound which is exponential in $d$.

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DOI : 10.4064/aa157-4-3

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