Parker's conjectural coordinator polynomial for cyclotomic lattices of order twice a prime

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Let pp be an odd prime, let ζ2p=e2πi/(2p)\zeta_{2p}=e^{2\pi i/(2p)}, and let h2p(x)h_{2p}(x) be the coordinator polynomial of Z[ζ2p]\mathbb Z[\zeta_{2p}] with respect to the set of all 2p2pth roots of unity. Parker's conjecture. The coordinator polynomial is

h2p(x)=∑k=0p−32(xk+xp−1−k)∑j=0k(pj)+xp−12∑j=0p−12(pj)h_{2p}(x)=\sum_{k=0}^{\frac{p-3}{2}}\left(x^k+x^{p-1-k}\right)\sum_{j=0}^{k}\binom pj+x^{\frac{p-1}{2}}\sum_{j=0}^{\frac{p-1}{2}}\binom pj =∑k=0p−32(xk+xp−1−k)∑j=0k(pj)+2p−1xp−12.=\sum_{k=0}^{\frac{p-3}{2}}\left(x^k+x^{p-1-k}\right)\sum_{j=0}^{k}\binom pj+2^{p-1}x^{\frac{p-1}{2}}.

The paper proves this conjecture by computing the relevant cyclotomic polytope data.

References

Primary source

Matthias Beck and Serkan Hosten, “Cyclotomic Polytopes and Growth Series of Cyclotomic Lattices”, arXiv:math/0508136 (2006).

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