Galois groups of twisted reciprocal polynomials: a uniform asymptotic

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We study the Galois group $G_f$ of a random polynomial $f$ in the family of polynomials of degree $2n$ satisfying the twisted reciprocal relation $f(x) = x^{2n}/b^n \cdot f(b/x)$. We use a Euclidean height adapted to this relation. Our main result is an asymptotic theorem of van der Waerden--Bhargava type: for fixed $b \neq 0$ and $n \geq 4$, the number of polynomials of height at most $H$ whose Galois group is not the full hyperoctahedral group $S_2 \wr S_n$ is an explicit constant times $H^n\log H$, with an error of order $H^n$. We determine the dependence of the leading constant on $b$; the leading-order group $G_1$ is of index $2$. This paper is a sequel to a recent paper by Anderson, Bertelli, and the author addressing reciprocal polynomials (i.e. the case $b = 1$).