[GAP Forum] Sqrt for the cyclotomic numbers

Alexander Hulpke hulpke at fastmail.fm
Mon Jan 19 21:43:23 GMT 2015


Dear Forum,

> On Jan 19, 2015, at 1/19/15 2:18, Palcoux Sebastien <sebastienpalcoux at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Is it possible to extend the function Sqrt on the cyclotomic numbers?

How would you represent this root? In general the square root of a cylotomic is not cyclotomic again. (You could form a formal AlgebraicExtension, but then you lose the irrational cyclotomics for operations.)

Regards,

   Alexander Hulpke





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