On multiplicatively independent bases in cyclotomic number fields

Abstract

Recently the authors [12] showed that the algebraic integers of the form $${-m+\zeta_k}$$ are bases of a canonical number system of $${\mathbb {Z}[{\zeta_k]}}$$ provided $${m \geqq \phi(k)+1}$$ , where $${\zeta_k}$$ denotes a k-th primitive root of unity and $${\phi}$$ is Euler’s totient function. In this paper we are interested in the questions whether two bases $${-m+\zeta_k}$$ and $${-n+\zeta_k}$$ are multiplicatively independent. We show the multiplicative independence in case that 0 1.