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Record W4412425279 · doi:10.1080/10586458.2025.2527786

Computational Progress on the Unfair 0-1 Polynomial Conjecture

2025· article· en· W4412425279 on OpenAlexaff
Kevin G. Hare

Bibliographic record

VenueExperimental Mathematics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicPolynomial and algebraic computation
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMathematicsConjecturePolynomialCombinatoricsAlgebra over a fieldDiscrete mathematicsPure mathematicsMathematical analysis

Abstract

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Let c(x) be a monic integer polynomial with coefficients 0 or 1. Write c(x)=a(x)b(x) where a(x) and b(x) are monic polynomials with non-negative real coefficients (not necessarily integer). The unfair 0–1 polynomial conjecture states that a(x) and b(x) are necessarily integer polynomials with coefficients 0 or 1. Let a(x) be a candidate factor of a (currently unknown) 0–1 polynomial. We will assume that we know if a coefficient is 0, 1 or strictly between 0 and 1, but that we do not know the precise value of non-integer coefficients. Given this candidate a(x), this paper gives an algorithm to find a b(x) and c(x) with a(x)b(x)=c(x) such that b(x) has non-negative real coefficients and c(x) has coefficients 0 or 1, or (often) shows that such c(x) and b(x) do not exist. Using this algorithm, we consider all candidate factors with degree less than or equal to 15. With the exception of 975 candidate factors (out of a possible 7141686 cases), this algorithm shows that there do not exist b(x) with non-negative real coefficients and c(x) with coefficients 0 or 1 such that a(x)b(x)=c(x).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.008
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.029
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.054

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.029
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.003
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0030.005
Scholarly communication0.0060.011
Open science0.0030.005
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0160.004

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.272
Teacher spread0.260 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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