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ON THE IRREDUCIBILITY OF SUM OF TWO RECIPROCAL POLYNOMIALS

Bang, Minsang (Department of Mathematics Chonnam National University)
Kwon, DoYong (Department of Mathematics Chonnam National University)

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Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society / v.53, no.3, 2016 , pp. 833-842 More about this Journal

Abstract

For a certain kind of reciprocal polynomials $$P(x),Q(x){\in}{\mathbb{Z}}[x$ $]$ $$$ , their sums are considered. We demonstrate that the Mahler measure of polynomials plays a role to prove the irreducibility of the sums over the field of rationals.

Keywords

irreducible polynomial; reciprocal polynomial; Mahler measure;

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