On the Linear Independence of Roots
Number Theory
2011-11-09 v2
Abstract
A set of real th roots that is pairwise linearly independent over the rationals must also be linearly independent. We show how this result may be extended to more general fields.
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@article{arxiv.math/0703522,
title = {On the Linear Independence of Roots},
author = {Richard Carr and Cormac O'Sullivan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0703522},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
8 pages. Edited, clarified with one further application