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Notes On a Borwein and Choi's conjecture of cyclotomic polynomials with coefficients $\pm1$

Number Theory 2018-08-01 v1

Abstract

Borwein and Choi conjectured that a polynomial P(x)P(x) with coefficients ±1\pm1 of degree N1N-1 is cyclotomic iff P(x)=±Φp1(±x)Φp2(±xp1)Φpr(±xp1p2pr1)P(x)=\pm \Phi_{p_1}(\pm x)\Phi_{p_2}(\pm x^{p_1})\cdots \Phi_{p_r}(\pm x^{p_1p_2\cdots p_{r-1}}) where N=p1p2prN=p_1p_2\cdots p_{r} and the pip_i are primes, not necessarily distinct. Here Φp(x):=(xp1)/(x1)\Phi_p(x):=(x^p-1)/(x-1) is the pp-th cyclotomic polynomial. In \cite{1}, they also proved the conjecture for NN odd or a power of 2. In this paper we introduce a so-called EE-transformation, by which we prove the conjecture for a wider variety of cases and present the key as well as a new approach to investigate the conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.1807.11693,
  title  = {Notes On a Borwein and Choi's conjecture of cyclotomic polynomials with coefficients $\pm1$},
  author = {Shaofang Hong and Wei Cao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.11693},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

This is my first paper written in 2004 as I was a 2nd year Master candidate. When it was finally published in 2009, I have been graduated with a doctorate degree for two years!!!