The elementary symmetric functions of a reciprocal polynomial sequence
Number Theory
2014-03-20 v1
Abstract
Erd\"{o}s and Niven proved in 1946 that for any positive integers and , there are at most finitely many integers for which at least one of the elementary symmetric functions of are integers. Recently, Wang and Hong refined this result by showing that if , then none of the elementary symmetric functions of is an integer for any positive integers and . Let be a polynomial of degree at least and of nonnegative integer coefficients. In this paper, we show that none of the elementary symmetric functions of is an integer except for with being an integer and .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1402.3115,
title = {The elementary symmetric functions of a reciprocal polynomial sequence},
author = {Yuanyuan Luo and Shaofang Hong and Guoyou Qian and Chunlin Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.3115},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
4 pages. To appear in Comptes Rendus Mathematique