2 papers
math.NT2006
The Mahler Measure of Parametrizable Polynomials
Sam Vandervelde
Our aim is to explain instances in which the value of the logarithmic Mahler measure of a polynomial can be written in an unexpectedly neat manner. To this end we examine polynomia…
math.NT2006
A Clean Approach to Rational Cubic Residues
Sam Vandervelde
In 1958 E. Lehmer found an explicit description of those primes p for which a given prime q is a cubic residue. In this paper we demonstrate that a similar result may be obtained f…