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CYCLOTOMIC FACTORS OF BORWEIN POLYNOMIALS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2019

BISWAJIT KOLEY
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Shiv Nadar University, 201314, India email bk140@snu.edu.in
SATYANARAYANA REDDY ARIKATLA*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Shiv Nadar University, 201314, India email satyanarayana.reddy@snu.edu.in
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Abstract

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A cyclotomic polynomial $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F7}_{k}(x)$ is an essential cyclotomic factor of $f(x)\in \mathbb{Z}[x]$ if $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F7}_{k}(x)\mid f(x)$ and every prime divisor of $k$ is less than or equal to the number of terms of $f.$ We show that if a monic polynomial with coefficients from $\{-1,0,1\}$ has a cyclotomic factor, then it has an essential cyclotomic factor. We use this result to prove a conjecture posed by Mercer [‘Newman polynomials, reducibility, and roots on the unit circle’, Integers12(4) (2012), 503–519].

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Research Article
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© 2019 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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