In an earlier work, the authors determined all possible weights n for which there exists a vanishing sum 1 Ο© ΠΈ ΠΈ ΠΈ Ο© n Ο 0 of mth roots of unity i in characteristic 0. In this paper, the same problem is studied in finite fields of characteristic p. For given m and p, results are obtained on integers
Sums of roots of unity in cyclotomic fields
β Scribed by Edward H Grossman
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 397 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-314X
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