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Irreducibility of Bernoulli Polynomials of Higher Order

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

P. J. McCarthy
P. J. McCarthy*
Affiliation:
University of Kansas
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The Bernoulli polynomials of order k, where k is a positive integer, are defined by

Bm(k)(x) is a polynomial of degree m with rational coefficients, and the constant term of Bm(k)(x) is the mth Bernoulli number of order k, Bm(k). In a previous paper (3) we obtained some conditions, in terms of k and m, which imply that Bm(k)(x) is irreducible (all references to irreducibility will be with respect to the field of rational numbers). In particular, we obtained the following two results.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 14 , 1962 , pp. 565 - 567
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1962

References

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