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Publications and source records attributed to T. N. Shorey.
For $n \geq 3$ and $s \leq 92$, it is proved in \cite{ShSi} that, except for finitely many pairs $(n, s), G_1(x) = G_1(x, n, s) $ is either irreducible or linear factor times an irreducible polynomial. If $s \leq 30$, we determine here explicitely the set of pairs $(n, s)$ in the above assertion. This implies a new proof of the result of Nair and Shorey \cite{NaSh1} that $G_1(x)$ is irreducible for $s \leq 22$.
We consider the irreducibility of polynomial $L_n^{(α)} (x) $ where $α$ is a negative integer. We observe that the constant term of $L_n^{(α)} (x) $ vanishes if and only if $n \geq |α| = -α$. Therefore we assume that $α= -n-s-1$ where $s$ is a non-negative integer. Let $$ g(x) = (-1)^n L_n^{(-n-s-1)}(x) = \sum\limits_{j=0}^{n} a_j \frac{x^j}{j!} $$ and more general polynomial, let $$ G(x) = \sum\limits_{j=0}^{n} a_j b_j \frac{x^j}{j!} $$ where $b_j$ with $0 \leq j \leq n$ are integers such that $|b_0| = |b_n| = 1$. Schur was the first to prove the irreducibility of $g(x)$ for $s=0$. It has been proved that $g(x)$ is irreducibile for $0 \leq s \leq 60$. In this paper, by a different method, we prove : Apart from finitely many explicitely given posibilities, either $G(x)$ is irreducible or $G(x)$ is linear factor times irreducible polynomial. This is a consequence of the estimate $s > 1.9 k$ whenever $G(x)$ has a factor of degree $k \geq 2$ and $(n,k,s) \neq (10,5,4)$. This sharpens earlier estimates of Shorey and Tijdeman and Nair and Shorey.
We prove that the generalised Laguerre polynomials $L_{n}^{(α)}(x)$ with $0\le \al\le 50$ are irreducible except for finitely many pairs $(n, \al)$ and that these exceptions are necessary. In fact it follows from a more general statement.
In this paper, we show that for each $n\geq 1$, the generalised Hermite-Laguerre Polynomials $G_{\frac{1}{4}}$ and $G_{\frac{3}{4}}$ are either irreducible or linear polynomial times an irreducible polynomial of degree $n-1$.
For a rational $q=u+\fracα{d}$ with $u, α, d\in \ACOBZ$ with $u\ge 0, 1\le α<d$, $\gcd(α, d)=1$, the \emph{generalized Hermite-Laguerre polynomials $G_q(x)$} are defined by \begin{align*} G_q(x)&=a_nx^n+a_{n-1}(α+(n-1+u)d)x^{n-1}+\cdots\\ &\quad+a_1\left(\prod^{n-1}_{i=1}(α+(i+u)d)\right)x+a_0 \left(\prod^{n-1}_{i=0}(α+(i+u)d)\right) \end{align*} where $a_0, a_1, \cdots, a_n$ are arbitrary integers. We prove some irreducibility results of $G_q(x)$ when $q\in \{\frac{1}{3}, \frac{2}{3}\}$ and extend some of the earlier irreducibility results when $q$ of the form $u+\frac{1}{2}$. We also prove a new improved lower bound for greatest prime factor of product of consecutive terms of an arithmetic progression whose common difference is 2 and 3.
The conjecture of Masser-Oesterlé, popularly known as $abc$-conjecture have many consequences. We use an explicit version due to Baker to solve a number of conjectures.