2nd try: Number of monomials in discriminant of a polynomial of degree n.
Victor S. Miller
victor at idaccr.org
Sat Dec 16 04:38:54 CET 2006
According to Magma, the sequence starts
foo := > foo := [#Monomials(Numerator(Disc(n))) : n in [1..6]];
[ 1, 2, 5, 16, 59, 246, 1103 ]
I got this withe following program
function Disc(n)
F := FunctionField(Rationals(),n);
R<x> := PolynomialRing(F);
f := x^n + &+[(F.i)*x^(n-i) : i in [1..n]];
return Discriminant(f);
end function;
[#Monomials(Numerator(Disc(n))) : n in [1..7]]
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