A note on average of roots of unity

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.124.2.170MaRDI QIDQ4575232zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Chatchawan Panraksa, Pornrat Ruengrot

Publication date 13 July 2018

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.07269

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic numbers; rings of algebraic integers (11R04)

Abstract: We consider the problem of characterizing all functions $f$ defined on the set of integers modulo $n$ with the property that an average of some $n$th roots of unity determined by $f$ is always an algebraic integer. Examples of such functions with this property are linear functions. We show that, when $n$ is a prime number, the converse also holds. That is, any function with this property is representable by a linear polynomial. Finally, we give an application of the main result to the problem of determining self perfect isometries for the cyclic group of prime order $p$.

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