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Reducible Rational Fractions of the type of Gaussian Polynomials with only Non-Negative Coefficients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Emil Grosswald*
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Temple University, College of Liberal Arts, Philadelphia, PA 19122
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The following problem arose in connection with the study of Poincaré polynomials for homogeneous spaces. Let

gi hi positive integers and set d = (h1, h1,…, hk), the greatest common divisors of the exponents in the denominator. Let hi = dri and assume that the ri′s are comprime in pairs, i.e.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1978

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