Cyclotomic Factors and LRS-Degeneracy
Commutative Algebra
2026-02-02 v4 Number Theory
Abstract
We present three new, practical algorithms for polynomials in : 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 such that for some root of unity . 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}
}