A note on the squarefree density of polynomials
Abstract The conjectured squarefree density of an integral polynomial in variables is an Euler product which can be considered as a product of local densities. We show that a necessary and sufficient condition for to be 0 when is a polynomial in variables over the integers, is that either there is a prime such that the values of at all integer points are divisible by or the polynomial is not squarefree as a polynomial. We also show that generally the upper squarefree density satisfies .
Authors
- R. C. Vaughan
- Yu. G. Zarhin
Institutions
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Mathematika
- Published
- 2024-08-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1112/mtk.12275
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Polynomial and algebraic computation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.36