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Publications and source records attributed to Elizabeth Mrema.
This paper examines the recursive sequence of polynomials $p_n(x)$, defined by $p_0(x) = x^2 - 2$ and $p_n(x) = p_{n-1}(x)^2 - 2$ for $n \geq 1$. It describes the field-theoretic motivations behind this sequence, derives a recursive formula for its coefficients, and identifies invariants that uncover combinatorial connections, including links to weighted Catalan numbers.
This paper characterizes the cyclicity property of $2$-power cyclotomic extensions through various means: the structure of the Galois groups, the nature of their subextensions, tower decompositions, and, most importantly, specific conditions on the base field.
This paper provides two characterizations of the primitive roots of unity in quadratic cyclotomic extensions over arbitrary fields. Firstly, we introduce a mapping from $\mathbb{N}$ to $\mathbb{N}$ crucial for describing these roots, closely tied to their order over the field. Secondly, for any prime $p$, we determine the maximal natural number $n$ such that $\zeta_{p^n}$ defines a quadratic cyclotomic extension over the field $F$. This characterization is uniform across different fields, regardless of their characteristic, and applies to both odd and even primes.