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2026-09-24
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2026-09-24
Newton's identities
relate the
elementary symmetric polynomials
e
k
to the
power
sums
p
k
=
∑
i
x
i
k
. The
first
three give
e
1
=
p
1
,
2
e
2
=
p
1
2
−
p
2
,
6
e
3
=
p
1
3
−
3
p
1
p
2
+
2
p
3
.
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