On prime values of cyclotomic polynomials

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Abstract: We present several approaches on finding necessary and sufficient conditions on n so that Phik(xn) is irreducible where Phik is the k-th cyclotomic polynomial.


Let \(\Phi_n(X)\) denoted the \(n\)th cyclotomic polynomial. The author shows, using only elementary arguments, that \(\Phi_k(X^n)\) is irreducible over the rationals iff \(\prod_{p|n}p\) divides \(k\), where \(p\) ranges over the prime divisors of \(n\). The author starts his discussion from scratch using many examples, making the paper accessible even to second year university students.











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