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Irreducibility criterion for certain trinomials

Number Theory 2019-07-10 v1

Abstract

In this article we study the irreducibility of polynomials of the form xn+ϵ1xm+pkϵ2x^n+\epsilon_1 x^m+p^k\epsilon_2, pp being a prime number. We will show that they are irreducible for m=1m=1. We have also provided the cyclotomic factors and reducibility criterion for trinomials of the form xn+ϵ1xm+ϵ2x^n+\epsilon_1x^m+\epsilon_2, where ϵi{1,+1}\epsilon_i\in \{\, -1,+1\,\}. This corrects few of the existing results of W. Ljuggren's on xn+ϵ1xm+ϵ2x^n+\epsilon_1x^m+\epsilon_2.

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@article{arxiv.1907.03959,
  title  = {Irreducibility criterion for certain trinomials},
  author = {Biswajit Koley and A. Satyanarayana Reddy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.03959},
  year   = {2019}
}

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6 pages

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