Colin Mallows's problems
Max
relf at unn.ac.ru
Mon Jun 13 01:03:03 CEST 2005
Edwin Clark wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Max wrote:
>
>
>>Could you please compute also the number of polynomials with coefficients in {-1,0,1} that divide x^n-1 ?
>>
>
>
> If I haven't made a mistake:
> Here are the number of monic divisors of x^n - 1 with coefficients in
> {0,1,-1}. Multiply by 2 to get all that have coefficients in {0,1,-1}.
>
> 2, 4, 4, 8, 4, 14, 4, 16, 8, 14, 4, 48, 4, 14, 14, 32, 4, 50, 4, 48, 14,
> 14, 4, 162, 8, 14, 16, 48, 4, 136, 4, 64, 14, 14, 14, 286, 4, 14, 14, 160,
> 4, 136, 4, 48, 48, 14, 4, 550, 8, 50, 14, 48, 4, 186, 14, 164, 14, 14, 4,
> 1124, 4, 14, 48, 128, 14, 136, 4, 48, 14, 136, 4, 1546, 4, 14, 49, 48, 14,
> 136, 4, 532, 32, 14, 4, 1138, 14, 14, 14, 160, 4, 1192, 14, 48, 14, 14,
> 14, 1882, 4, 50, 48, 296
>
> Note that many of these are equal to 2^tau(n) where tau(n) is the number
> of positive divisors of n = number of irreducible factors of x^n - 1 for
> many values of n.
What's about a sequence of such n's? Is it finite or infinite?
> This is connected to the fact that for small values of n
> the coefficients of the nth cyclotomic polynomial has coefficients in
> {0,1,-1}. But it is unlikely that any simple formula gives the sequence
> for all n (IMHO)...
>
> Please submit the sequence Max if you wish. It might be a good idea to
> have someone else check my computation.
What method did you use to compute these numbers?
Did you make all possible divisors of x^n - 1 out of cyclotomic polynomials of degree dividing n and then test their coefficients?
Thanks,
Max
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