Stephen McKean

collaborators

2 papers

math.AG2025

Tolerants

Swechchha Adhikari, Brent Hall, Stephen McKean

We study a generalization of the discriminant of a polynomial, which we call the tolerant. The tolerant differs by multiplication by a square from the duplicant, which was discover…

math.NT2025

Toda primes

Stephen McKean

A Toda prime of an integer $n$ is an odd prime $p$ such that $4 n = (p - 1) k$ with $k$ coprime to $p$ . We conjecture that every positive integer admits at least two Toda primes. We give…