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The Schur polynomials in all primitive $n$th roots of unity

Combinatorics 2025-09-16 v3 Number Theory Representation Theory

Abstract

We show that the Schur polynomials in all primitive nnth roots of unity are 11, 00, or 1-1, if nn has at most two distinct odd prime factors. This result can be regarded as a generalization of properties of the coefficients of the cyclotomic polynomial and its multiplicative inverse. The key to the proof is the concept of a unimodular system of vectors. Namely, this result can be reduced to the unimodularity of the tensor product of two maximal circuits (here we call a vector system a maximal circuit, if it can be expressed as B{B}B \cup \{ -\sum B \} with some basis BB).

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@article{arxiv.2403.10817,
  title  = {The Schur polynomials in all primitive $n$th roots of unity},
  author = {Masaki Hidaka and Minoru Itoh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.10817},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

8 pages; revised version; the proof of Proposition 3.4 has been simplified; to appear in Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A