Mathematics Asked on December 21, 2021
I’m reading Ahlfors’ complex analysis book. One of the problems in the book says as follows
What is the value of $1 -omega^h + omega^{2h} -…+(-1)^{n-1} omega^{(n-1)h}$?
where $h$ is some integer and $ omega = cosleft(frac{2pi}{n}right) + i sin left(frac{2 pi}{n}right)$, for some fixed $n in mathbb{N}$, is one of the $n$-th roots of unity.
The first thing I noticed is that I could write the series in terms of $-omega^h$ as
$$
1 +left(-omega^hright) + left(-omega^hright)^2 +…+left(-omega^hright)^{n-1}
$$
Inspired by this, I separated the problem into 2 cases
Is my solution correct? And if so, is this as simplified as I can write the solution, or can it still be simplified further? Thank you very much!
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