Dimitris Koukoulopoulos

Dimitris Koukoulopoulos, Université de Montréal (Canada)


Is a random polynomial irreducible?

Given a "random" polynomial over the integers, it is expected that, with high probability, it is irreducible and has a big
Galois group over the rationals. Such results have been long known when the degree is bounded and the coefficients
are chosen uniformly at random from some interval, but the case of bounded coefficients and unbounded degree remained
open. Very recently, Emmanuel Breuillard and Peter Varju settled the case of bounded coefficients conditionnally on the
Riemann Hypothesis for certain Dedekind zeta functions. In this talk, I will present unconditional progress towards this problem,
joint with Lior Bary-Soroker and Gady Kozma.