Littlewood Pisot numbers
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Littlewood Pisot numbers
zbMATH Open document ID: 1095.11049
author: Keshav Mukunda
published in: Journal of Number Theory
publication date: 2006-04-28T00:00:00Z
review text: The author studies Littlewood Pisot numbers which are defined as Pisot numbers whose minimal polynomials are Littlewood polynomials, i.e., those with \(\pm 1\) coefficients. He also defines Littlewood Salem numbers as Salem numbers which are roots of (not necessarily irreducible) Littlewood polynomials. The main theorem of this paper asserts that every Littlewood Pisot number has the minimal polynomial \(x^n-x^{n-1}-x^{n-2}-\dots-x-1=0,\) where \(n \geq 2\). The proof involves Boyd's algorithm for determining all Pisot numbers in a given interval. The author also proves that every Littlewood Pisot number is a limit point of Littlewood Salem numbers from below. The proof uses some arguments of Borwein, Dobrowolski and Mossinghoff. They earlier proved this for the golden mean \((1+\sqrt{5})/2\) which is the smallest Littlewood Pisot number. Finally, he proves a result which implies that every reciprocal Littlewood polynomial of odd degree has at least three unimodular roots.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11R06
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11R09
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11C08
zbMATH DE Number: 5021231
zbMATH Keywords: Pisot and Salem numbers
zbMATH Keywords: Littlewood polynomials
zbMATH Keywords: reciprocal polynomials
reviewed by: A. Dubickas
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: j.jnt.2005.05.009
OpenAlex ID: W1989650631
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DOI: 10.1016/J.JNT.2005.05.009
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5021231