Remark on Laquer's theorem for circulant determinants

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Faculty of Education, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Abstract

Olga Taussky-Todd suggested the problem of determining the possible values of integer circulant determinants. To solve a special case of the problem, Laquer gave a factorization of circulant determinants. In this paper, we give a modest generalization of Laquer's theorem. Also, we give an application of the generalization to integer group determinants.

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