Number of Real Critical Points of Cyclotomic Polynomials

Publication date: 27 December 2019

Abstract: We study the number of real critical points of a cyclotomic polynomial

P h i_{n} (x)

, that is, the real roots of

P h i_{n}^{p r i m e} (x)

. As usual, one can, without losing generality, restrict

n

to be the product of distinct odd primes, say

p_{1} < c d o t s < p_{k}

. We show that if the primes are "sufficiently separated" then there are exactly

2^{k} - 1

real roots of

P h i_{n}^{p r i m e} (x)

and each of them is simple.

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