Dense polynomials, sparse squares

Find a polynomial whose coefficients are all nonzero integers and whose square has as few nonzero terms as possible.

The square of a typical dense polynomial is dense too. The open question is how few terms the square of a dense polynomial can have as its degree n grows: the best known families have squares with about n^e terms for a fixed exponent e, and a lower e is better.

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The lab's best family

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The lab's best explicit witness

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The lab's best single polynomial

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