Roots of unity and unreasonable differentiation

DOI10.1007/S00013-019-01342-5zbMATH Open1457.11008arXiv1901.06157OpenAlexW3099804578MaRDI QIDQ2274006FDOQ2274006

Authors: Alice Devillers, S. P. Glasby 

Publication date: 19 September 2019

Published in: Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We explore when it is legal to differentiate a polynomial evaluated at a root of unity using modular arithmetic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.06157

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zbMATH Keywords

automataJacobson radicalnear ringfalling factorial\(J\)-group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Congruences; primitive roots; residue systems (11A07)

Cites Work

• Solvability of groups of odd order
• The groups \(G\) satisfying a functional equation \(f(xk) = xf(x)\) for some \(k \in G\)

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• Non-uniqueness of composition square roots
• Forcing smooth square roots and integration
• The groups \(G\) satisfying a functional equation \(f(xk) = xf(x)\) for some \(k \in G\)

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