Irreducibility of positive coprime split trace covers #
This module removes the oddness restriction from the split-cover proof. A Capelli-style
binomial criterion constructs the Kummer tower for arbitrary positive coprime exponents over a
field containing a square root of -1. A parity-free residue decomposition then reconnects the
tower to the actual affine cover polynomial and proves its principal ideal prime.
The coprimality restriction is still real in this proof: common prime divisors require a separate Kummer-class independence argument and are not hidden here.
Over a field in which -1 is a square, the usual prime-radicand criterion for
X^n-a is valid also for even n.
The first trace-curve Kummer polynomial is irreducible for every positive exponent once
the constant field contains a square root of -1.
The norm-degree obstruction for the second radicand does not depend on parity. It applies to every prime not dividing the first exponent.
For arbitrary positive coprime exponents, including even exponents, the second Kummer
polynomial is irreducible once the constant field contains a square root of -1.
Rectangular residue index for arbitrary positive coprime exponents.
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Syntactic rectangular coefficients without parity assumptions.
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Evaluation at the two roots in the general positive-coprime Kummer tower.
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Residue-block coefficient polynomials for arbitrary positive exponents.
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Exact reconstruction from the general residue blocks.
Each general syntactic coefficient is the base-curve evaluation of its residue block.
Source division for every positive coprime cover once the even Kummer criterion applies.
The normalized split trace-cover polynomial is irreducible for all positive coprime
exponents, including even exponents, over a field containing a square root of -1.