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Irreducibility Criteria for Compositions and Multiplicative Convolutions of Polynomials with Integer Coefficients

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Dec 10, 2014

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We provide irreducibility criteria for multiplicative convolutions of polynomials with integer coefficients, that is, for polynomials of the form hdeg f · f(g/h), where f, g, h are polynomials with integer coefficients, and g and h are relatively prime. The irreducibility conditions are expressed in terms of the prime factorization of the leading coefficient of the polynomial hdeg f · f(g/h), the degrees of f, g, h, and the absolute values of their coefficients. In particular, by letting h = 1 we obtain irreducibility conditions for compositions of polynomials with integer coefficients.

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Mathematics, General Mathematics