Wednesday, 6 March 2013

complex numbers - Why is the sum of the first k powers of a k-th primitive root varphik of 1 always 0?

Let φkC be a primitive root of 1. It turns out, that φ1k++φkk=0 .

If I draw the roots for some fixed k, I can see that this seems evident. For every root there is a complex conjugated one, so that the imaginary parts cancel out (except for 1+0i, but this doesn't matter). But why do the real parts always sum to 0?



Example k=3:
φ3:=ei23Π


φ13+φ23+φ33=ei23Π+ei43Π+1=cos(23Π)+isin(23Π)+cos(43Π)+isin(43Π)+cos(2Π)+isin(2Π)=12+i3212i32+1+0=0

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