Single polynomials that correspond to pairs of cyclotomic polynomials with interlacing zeros (Q352739): Difference between revisions

The authors study some results on pairs of cyclotomic polynomials whose zeros interlace on the unit circle and show that each of these pairs corresponds to a single polynomial from a special class of integer polynomials. In particular, they call a nonconstant polynomial with leading coefficient \(2\) \textit{disc-bionic} if all of its zeros lie in the open unit disc. They call a polynomial \(F\) \textit{\(2\)-reciprocal}, if all the coefficients of the difference between \(F\) and its reciprocal polynomial \(F^*\) are divisible by \(2\). In particular, in Corollary 2.2 they prove that (essentially) the list of all \(2\)-reciprocal disc-bionic polynomials consists of the infinite family \((2z^{n+m}-z^n-z^m)/(z-1)\), where \(m,n \in \mathbb{N}\), \(n \geq m\), \(\gcd(m,n)=1\), the infinite family \(2z^{n+m}+(-1)^{mn}z^n+z^m\), where \(m,n \in \mathbb{N}\), \(n > m\), \(\gcd(m,n)=1\), and some special \(26\) sporadic polynomials (which are extracted from an earlier work of Beukers and Heckman related to hypergeoemtric functions). Some applications to special Pisot numbers are also given.