Note on vanishing power sums of roots of unity

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Authors Neeraj Kumar, K. Senthil Kumar

Publication date 7 September 2016

Published in The Mathematics Student (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.07281

zbMATH Keywords

power sumroots of unity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trigonometric and exponential sums (general theory) (11L03) Cyclotomic extensions (11R18)

Abstract: For a given positive integers $m$ and $ell$, we give a complete list of positive integers $n$ for which their exist $m$th roots of unity $x_1,dots,x_{n}inmathbbC$ such that $x_1^{ell}+cdots+x_n^{ell}=0$. This extends the earlier result of Lam and Leung on vanishing sums of roots of unity. Furthermore, we prove that for which integers $n$ with $2leqnleqm$, there are distinct $m$th roots of unity $x_1,dots,x_{n}inmathbbC$ such that $x_1^{ell}+cdots+x_n^{ell}=0$.

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