be a primitive p th root of unity and recall that
as ideals in Q
.
Define
to be the sum on the left side of (1.12) for each j, so that
which belongs to the ideal
, for
.
Therefore
,
belongs to
. However, since
each
is a rational integer, it must be divisible by
where
is the smallest multiple of
, which is
,
and (1.12) follows immediately.