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A Family of Real Pn-Tic Fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Yuan-Yuan Shen  and
Lawrence C. Washington
Yuan-Yuan Shen
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Tunghai University Taichung, Taiwan 40704, R.O.C.
Lawrence C. Washington
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, U.S.A.
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Abstract

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Let q = p if p is an odd prime, q = 4 if p = 2. Let ζq be any primitive q-th root of unity, and let . We study the family of polynomials where Rn(X) and Sn(X) are the polynomials in the expansion We show that for fixed n, Pn(X; a) is irreducible for all but finitely many a ∈ O, and for p = 3, we show that it is irreducible for all a ∈ O. The roots are all real and are permuted cyclically by a linear fractional transformation defined over the real pn-th cyclotomic field. From the roots we obtain a non-maximal set of independent units for the splitting field. In the last section we briefly treat extensions of our methods to composite p.

Keywords

11R2111R0911R1611R1811R27pn-tic fieldsunits
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , 01 June 1995 , pp. 655 - 672
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1995

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