Lower Bounds on the Least Common Multiple of a Polynomial Sequence and its Radical

Cilleruelo conjectured that for an irreducible polynomial $f\in \mathbb{Z}[X]$ of degree $d\ge 2$, denoting $$L_f(N)=\mathrm{l}\mathrm{c}\mathrm{m}(f(1),f(2),\dots f(N))$$ one has $$\log L_f(n)\sim (d-1)N\log N\mathrm{.}$$ He proved it in the case $d=2$ but it remains open for every polynomial with $d>2$. While the tight upper bound $\log L_f(n)\lesssim (d-1)N\log N$ is known, the best known general lower bound due to Sah is $\log L_f(n)\gtrsim N\log N\mathrm{.}$ We give an improved lower bound for a special class of irreducible polynomials, which includes the decomposable irreducible polynomials $f=g\circ h,g,h\in \mathbb{Z}[x],\mathrm{d}\mathrm{e}\mathrm{g}g,\mathrm{d}\mathrm{e}\mathrm{g}h\ge 2$, for which we show $$\log L_f(n)\gtrsim \frac{d-1}{d-\mathrm{d}\mathrm{e}\mathrm{g}g}N\log N\mathrm{.}$$ We also improve Sah’s lower bound $\log {\mathrm{\ell }}_f(N)\gtrsim \frac{2}{d}N\log N$ for the radical ${\mathrm{\ell }}_f(N)=\mathrm{r}\mathrm{a}\mathrm{d}(L_f(N))$ for all $f$ with $d\ge 3$ and give a further improvement for polynomials $f$ with a small Galois group and satisfying an additional technical condition, as well as for decomposable polynomials.