Let be a sequence of polynomials, where , , and
for all . Determine all positive integers such that is divisible by .
Solution
By direct calculation, one can obtain
for all positive integers . Let and be the natural number such that is a divisor of . It is easy to see that
then is odd.
Let , we will show that is an integer coefficient polynomial. In this step, we assume that
where and is a primitive polynomial. Hence,
By Gauss lemma, is primitive then the greatest common divisor of all the coefficients of is hence is divisible by . Denoted then
Putting , since is odd, we get
Note that hence we can check that the above condition is equivalent to where is an odd natural number. On the other hand, if where is odd, we have
In conclusion, the answer is where is a non-negative integer.
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