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On Primitive Prime Factors of an-bn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

A. Schinzel
A. Schinzel
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Trinity College, Cambridge
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Let a, b be relatively prime integers with |a| > |b| > 0. For any integer n > 0, let π n denote the nth cyclotomic polynomial, denned by

where ζn is a primitive nth root of unity.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 58 , Issue 4 , October 1962 , pp. 556 - 562
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1962

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