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Extension of a Lemma of Stroh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. H. Grace
Affiliation:
Peterhouse

Extract

The lemma I propose to discuss may be stated as follows;

If ξ, η, ζ are three quantities whose sum is zero and λ, μ, ν three positive integers (≤n) satisfying the condition

then any polynomial of order n in ξ, η, ζ can be expressed in the form

where P, Q, R are polynomials of orders n − λ, n − μ, n − ν.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1928

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References

* Math. Ann. Bd XXXI, p. 444Google Scholar. Cf. Algebra of Invariants, p. 62. The case of n = 1 is trivial, exceptional, and ignored throughout.Google Scholar

The number is: g(n−λ)+g(n−μ)+g(n−ν)+g(n−ρ)Google Scholar

* This as usual means

or

The word apolar is frequently used in the same sense.

There is a trifling modification for two variables, the case which gives Stroh's lemma, because the principle of duality is unnecessary in one dimension. Cf. Bertini, , Geometria projettiva degli iperspazi (1923), p. 260. I return to the point in §6.Google Scholar

* Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (2) I, pp. 345350 (1903).Google Scholar The thesis there was to prove that expression is possible with each exponent equal to or greater than n/2 and this of course follows from the particular cases. It follows from the general theorem of §1, since one of the integers

must be divisible by 4.

* Cf. Algebra of Invariants, p. 375.Google Scholar