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Cyclotomic ordering conjecture

Number Theory 2019-03-08 v1

Abstract

This note describes a conjecture involving cyclotomic polynomials and some initial thoughts towards a solution. Given positive integers m,nm,n, the conjecture is that either Φm(q)Φn(q)\Phi_m(q)\leqslant\Phi_n(q) or Φm(q)Φn(q)\Phi_m(q)\geqslant\Phi_n(q) holds for all integers q2q\geqslant 2. Pomerance and Rubinstein-Salzedo proved the conjecture in a preprint called `Cyclotomic coincidences' [arXiv:1903.01962].

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@article{arxiv.1903.02951,
  title  = {Cyclotomic ordering conjecture},
  author = {S. P. Glasby},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.02951},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

2 pages; Pomerance and Rubinstein-Salzedo wanted to be able to cite my conjecture for their paper "Cyclotomic coincidences" [arXiv:1903.01962]

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