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Sums of three roots of unity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

A. J. Jones
Affiliation:
Trinity College Cambridge

Extract

The object of this paper is to prove a conjecture made by Robinson (1) concerning cyclotomic integers, that is, integers that are rationally expressible in terms of roots of unity.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1968

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