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A survey on coefficients of cyclotomic polynomials

The notion of block divisibility naturally leads one to introduce unitary cyclotomic polynomials. We formulate some basic properties of unitary cyclotomic polynomials and study how they are connected with cyclotomic, inclusion-exclusion and Kronecker polynomials. Further, we derive some related arithmetic function identities involving the unitary analog of the Dirichlet convolution.

Unitary cyclotomic polynomials

A unitary cyclotomic polynomial of order three is a polynomial of the form \[ \Phi^*_{PQR}(x)=\frac{(x^{PQR}-1)(x^P-1)(x^Q-1)(x^R-1)}{(x^{PQ}-1)(x^{QR}-1)(x^{RP}-1)(x-1)}, \] where $P$, $Q$ and $R$ are powers of three distinct primes $p$, $q$ and $r$. Fixing any such prime triple generates a family of these polynomials corresponding to all possible choices of $P=p^a$, $Q=q^b$ and $R=r^c$. We study the coefficients of polynomials in such a family. In particular, we show that the coefficients of polynomials in every such family cover all of $\mathbb{Z}$.

Coefficients of Unitary Cyclotomic Polynomials of Order Three

The notion of block divisibility naturally leads one to introduce unitary cyclotomic polynomials $\Phi_n^*(x)$. They can be written as certain products of cyclotomic poynomials. We study the case where $n$ has two or three distinct prime factors using numerical semigroups, respectively Bachman's inclusion-exclusion polynomials. Given $m \ge 1$ we show that every integer occurs as a coefficient of $\Phi^*_{mn}(x)$ for some $n\ge 1$ following Ji, Li and Moree [9]. Here $n$ will typically have many different prime factors. We also consider similar questions for the polynomials $(x^n-1)/\Phi_n^*(x)$, the inverse unitary cyclotomic polynomials.

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Coefficients of (inverse) unitary cyclotomic polynomials

The notion of block divisibility naturally leads one to introduce unitary cyclotomic polynomials $\Phi_n^*(x)$. They can be written as certain products of cyclotomic poynomials. We study the case where $n$ has two or three distinct prime factors using numerical semigroups, respectively Bachman's inclusion-exclusion polynomials. Given $m\ge 1$ we show that every integer occurs as a coefficient of $\Phi^*_{mn}(x)$ for some $n\ge 1$. Here $n$ will typically have many different prime factors. We also consider similar questions for the polynomials $(x^n-1)/\Phi_n^*(x),$ the inverse unitary cyclotomic polynomials.

B. B. White

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Coefficients of (inverse) unitary cyclotomic polynomials

Coefficients of (inverse) unitary cyclotomic polynomials