ABSTRACT. Let f (x) be a monic polynomial in Z[x] with roots α 1 , . . . , α n . We point out the importance of linear relations among 1, α 1 , . . . , α n over rationals with respect to the distribution of local roots of f modulo a prime. We formulate it as a conjectural uniform distribution in some sense, which elucidates data in previous papers.
Communicated by Shigeki AkiyamaIn this note, a polynomial means always a monic one over the ring Z of integers and the letter p denotes a prime number, unless specified. Letbe a polynomial of degree n. As in the previous papers, we putis fully splitting modulo p} for a positive number X and Spl (f ) := Spl ∞ (f ). In this note, we require the following conditions on the local roots r 1 , . . . , r n (∈ Z) of f (x) ≡ 0 mod p for a prime p ∈ Spl (f ) :We can determine local roots r i uniquely with this global ordering. If f is irreducible and of deg(f ) > 1, and p is sufficiently large, then (2) is equivalent to 0 < r 1 < · · · < r n < p. Here, we consider two types of distribution of local roots r i of f .