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 th roots of unity are , , or , if 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 with some basis ).
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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