{ "id": "2406.12010", "version": "v1", "published": "2024-06-17T18:27:48.000Z", "updated": "2024-06-17T18:27:48.000Z", "title": "Criteria for the integrality of $n$th roots of power series", "authors": [ "John Pomerat", "Armin Straub" ], "comment": "11 pages", "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "Heninger, Rains and Sloane raised the question of which power series with integer coefficients can be written as the $n$th power of another power series with integer coefficients and constant term $1$. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions, as well as compare with a general integrality criterion due to Dieudonn\\'e and Dwork that can be applied to this question as well.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2024-06-17T18:27:48.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "power series", "th roots", "integer coefficients", "general integrality criterion", "th power" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 11, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }