On Quadratic Fields Generated by Discriminants of Irreducible Trinomials

Abstract

A. Mukhopadhyay, M. R. Murty and K. Srinivas (http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0418) have recently studied various arithmetic properties of the discriminant ${\Delta }_n(a,b)$ of the trinomial $f_{n,a,b}(t)=t^n+at+b$, where $n\ge 5$ is a fixed integer. In particular, it is shown that, under the $abc$-conjecture, for every $n\equiv 1(\mathrm{mod}4)$, the quadratic fields $\Q(\sqrt{Δ_n(a,b)})$ are pairwise distinct for a positive proportion of such discriminants with integers $a$ and $b$ such that $f_{n,a,b}$ is irreducible over $\Q$ and $|{\Delta }_n(a,b)|\le X$, as $X\to \infty$. We use the square-sieve and bounds of character sums to obtain a weaker but unconditional version of this result.

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