Questions

$ (1)$
Show that $ \omega=2$ is a primitive $ 8$ -th root of unity in $ F$ , and compute the inverse $ \omega^{-1}$ of $ \omega$ in $ F$ .
$ (2)$
Trace the algorithm FFT (Algorithm 2 in Section 1.5 in lecture notes) and its subroutine DFT (Algorithm 1 in Section 1.4 in lecture notes) to compute the product $ h=fg\in F[x]$ with Maple, where $ \omega$ is given as above.

Marc Moreno Maza
2008-03-18