Flat Cyclotomic Polynomials: A New Approach

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Authors Sam Elder

Publication date 24 July 2012

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special sequences and polynomials (11B83) Polynomials in number theory (11C08)

Abstract: We build a new theory for analyzing the coefficients of any cyclotomic polynomial by considering it as a gcd of simpler polynomials. Using this theory, we generalize a result known as periodicity and provide two new families of flat cyclotomic polynomials. One, of order 3, was conjectured by Broadhurst: $Ph{i}_{pqr}(x)$ is flat where $p<q<r$ are primes and there is a positive integer $w$ such that $requivpmwpmodpq$, $pequiv1pmodw$ and $qequiv1pmodwp$. The other is the first general family of order 4: $Ph{i}_{pqrs}(x)$ is flat for primes $p,q,r,s$ where $qequiv-1pmodp$, $requivpm1pmodpq$, and $sequivpm1pmodpqr$. Finally, we prove that the natural extension of this second family to order 5 is never flat, suggesting that there are no flat cyclotomic polynomials of order 5.

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