Patterns and periodicity in a family of resultants
Kevin G. Hare, David McKinnon, Christopher D. Sinclair (2009)
Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux
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Given a monic degree polynomial and a non-negative integer , we may form a new monic degree polynomial by raising each root of to the th power. We generalize a lemma of Dobrowolski to show that if and is prime then divides the resultant of and . We then consider the function . We show that for fixed and that this function is periodic in both and , and exhibits high levels of symmetry. Some discussion of its structure as a union of lattices is also given. ...