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### Evaluating a remarkable term for primes p = 5 (mod. 8)

According to Theorem 5.1 of http://math.mit.edu/~rstan/pubs/pubfiles/35.pdf, the number is $$\frac 1p\left[ 2^{p-1}+\frac{p-1}{2}(\epsilon^{4h} + \epsilon^{-4h})\right],$$ where $h$ is the ...
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### How small can a sum of a few roots of unity be?

This question grabbed my attention a couple of years ago and I've just put a paper on the arXiv with new upper bounds for $k=5$. I began by computing lots of data, then teased out the structure of ...
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### $q$ as a prime power and a root of unity

This is very not rigorous, but it's a way of thinking about this topic which I find personally helpful. Several $\mathbb F_1$ papers contains remarks about the idea going back to Weil and Iwasawa that ...
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### Why are most coefficients of these minimal polynomials divisible by $p$?

So $\zeta=-\xi$, where $\xi$ is a primitive $p$'th root of unity. Let $\pi=1-\xi$. The minimal polynomial of $(1+\zeta^n)a$ is a product of terms of the form $X-(1+\zeta^{nj})\alpha_{ij}$, where $j$ ...

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### Has any one seen this sum of roots of unity before?

Using the sagemath code, ...
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### A conjecture involving roots of unity

Motivated by Nemo's solution in the case $\delta=0$, here I provide a proof for the case $\delta=1$. Let $\zeta$ be a primitive $m(n-1)+1$-th root of unity, and consider S=\sum_{k=1}^{n-1}\left(\...
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