On the Integrality of n-th Roots of Generating Functions

Details On the Integrality of n-th Roots of Generating Functions On the Integrality of n-th Roots of Generating Functions

2005-09-14

arxiv.org/abs/math/0509316v4

Mathematics

Number Theory

14 pages. V2: Sep 16 2005: typos corrected, added remarks, added new theorem (Theorem 6), modified a conjecture. V3: Sep 30 20

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Motivated by the discovery that the eighth root of the theta series of the E_8 lattice and the 24th root of the theta series of the Leech lattice both have integer coefficients, we investigate the question of when an arbitrary element f in R (where R = 1 + xZ[[x]]) can be written as f = g^n for g in R, n >= 2. Let P_n := {g^n : g in R} and let mu_n := n Product_{p|n} p. We show among other things that (i) for f in R, f in P_n <=> f mod mu_n in P_n, and (ii) if f in P_n, there is a unique g in P_n with coefficients mod mu_n/n such that f == g^n (mod mu_n). In particular, if f == 1 (mod mu_n) then f in P_n. The latter assertion implies that the theta series of any extremal even unimodular lattice in R^n (e.g. E_8 in R^8) is in P_n if n is of the form 2^i 3^j 5^k (i >= 3). There do not seem to be any exact analogues for codes, although we show that the weight enumerator of the r-th order Reed-Muller code of length 2^m is in P_{2^r}. We give a number of other results and conjectures, and establish a conjecture of Paul D. Hanna that there is a unique element f in P_n (n != 2) with coefficients restricted to the set {1, 2, ..., n}.

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