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A prime sensitive Hankel determinant of Jacobi symbol enumerators

Combinatorics 2008-03-20 v1

Abstract

We show that the determinant of a Hankel matrix of odd dimension n whose entries are the enumerators of the Jacobi symbols which depend on the row and the column indices vanishes iff n is composite. If the dimension is a prime p, then the determinant evaluates to a polynomial of degree p-1 which is the product of a power of p and the generating polynomial of the partial sums of Legendre symbols. The sign of the determinant is determined by the quadratic character of -1 modulo p. The proof of the evaluation makes use of elementary properties of Legendre symbols, quadratic Gauss sums and orthogonality of trigonometric functions.

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@article{arxiv.0803.2834,
  title  = {A prime sensitive Hankel determinant of Jacobi symbol enumerators},
  author = {Omer Egecioglu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.2834},
  year   = {2008}
}

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13 pages, to appear in Annals of Combinatorics

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