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Cyclotomic Factors and LRS-Degeneracy

Commutative Algebra 2026-02-02 v4 Number Theory

Abstract

We present three new, practical algorithms for polynomials in Z[x]\mathbb{Z}[x]: one to test if a polynomial is cyclotomic, one to determine which cyclotomic polynomials are factors, and one to determine whether the given polynomial is LRS-degenerate. A polynomial is "LRS-degenerate" iff it has two distinct roots α,β\alpha, \beta such that β=ζα\beta = \zeta \alpha for some root of unity ζ\zeta. All three algorithms are based on "intelligent brute force". The first two produce the indexes of the cyclotomic polynomials; the third produces a list of degeneracy orders. The algorithms are implemented in CoCoALib.

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@article{arxiv.2403.08751,
  title  = {Cyclotomic Factors and LRS-Degeneracy},
  author = {John Abbott and Nico Mexis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.08751},
  year   = {2026}
}