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Revision as of 23:26, 18 June 2006
Contents
Background
Let , where the coefficient of is . As a consequence of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, we can also write , where are the roots of .
Also, let be the th symmetric sum.
Statement
, for .
Proof
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