The growth rate #
D_3(n) is the largest size of a square-difference-free set of polynomials of degree below n.
It is nondecreasing, at most 3^n, and at least 810^e at n = 8e by the first family. Writing
L = log 810 / log 3, the three facts give
log D_3(n) / (n log 3) ≥ (1/8 - 1/n) · L for n ≥ 8,
so the lower limit of the left side is at least L/8. Finally 16/21 ≤ L/8 is the natural-number
comparison 3^128 ≤ 810^21, and 16/21 = 0.76190… is the stated bound.
The finite set polynomialsBelow n is exactly the set of polynomials of degree below n.
There are at most 3^n polynomials of degree below n.
The polynomials of degree below n sit inside those of degree below n' for n ≤ n'.
Every square-difference-free set of polynomials of degree below n is counted by D_3(n).
D_3 is nondecreasing.
D_3(n) ≤ 3^n, the trivial upper bound.
D_3(n) ≥ 1, witnessed by the one-element set {0}.
The first family gives D_3(8e) ≥ 810^e.
The exponent supplied by repeated degree-eight lifts.
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The lift exponent is positive.
The elementary integer comparison 3^128 ≤ 810^21 bounds the exponent.
Counting all coefficient vectors bounds the normalized logarithm by one.
Rounding the degree down to a multiple of eight costs at most seven degrees.
Every smaller exponent eventually bounds the normalized logarithm from below.
The growth rate. The lift exponent, and hence 16/21, bounds the normalized liminf.