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REFLECTIONS ON SYMMETRIC POLYNOMIALS AND ARITHMETIC FUNCTIONS TRUEMAN MACHENRY AND GEANINA TUDOSE 1 0 Abstract. In an isomorphic copy of the ring of symmetric polynomials we study some 0 2 families of polynomials which are indexed by rational weight vectors. These families include well known symmetric polynomials, such as the elementary, homogeneous, and power sum n symmetric polynomials. We investigate properties of these families and focus on construct- u J ing their rational roots under a product induced by convolution. A direct application of 5 the latter is to the description of the roots of certain multiplicative arithmetic functions 2 (the core functions) under the convolution product. ] O C . 1. Introduction h t a This paper is concerned with a certain isomorphic copy of the ring Λ ⊗Z R of symmetric ′ m functions, namely the ring of isobaric polynomials Λ , where the isomorphism is given by a [ polynomial map involving the elementary symmetric functions. The ring will be taken to 1 be either the integers Z or the rationals Q, and the image of a symmetric polynomial under v 3 the isomorphism mentioned above will be called an isobaric reflect. An isobaric polynomial 3 1 is one of the form P = A(α)tα1 ...tαk , where α = (α , ...α ), α ≥ 0 are integers with n α 1 k 1 k i 2 j jαj