The Cauchy-Mirimanoff Polynomials are a class of polynomials that naturally arise in various classical studies of Fermat's Last Theorem. Originally conjectured to be irreducible over 100 years ago, the irreducibility of the Cauchy-Mirimanoff polynomials is still an open conjecture. This dissertation takes a new approach to the study of the Cauchy-Mirimanoff Polynomials. The reciprocal transform of a self-reciprocal polynomial is defined, and the reciprocal transforms of the Cauchy-Mirimanoff Polynomials are found and studied. Particular attention is given to the Cauchy-Mirimanoff Polynomials with index three times a power of a prime, and it is shown that the Cauchy-Mirimanoff Polynomials of index three times a prime are irreducible.

Orientador: Vanessa Avansini Botta Pirani / Resumo: O presente trabalho tem como objetivo principal estudar o comportamento dos zeros de alguns tipos de polinômios auto-recíprocos gerados a partir de polinômios quaseortogonais de Chebyshev de ordens um e dois. Os zeros dos polinômios auto-recíprocos que construímos estão ligados aos zeros de polinômios quase-ortogonais. Os polinômios quaseortogonais podem ser obtidos a partir de uma sequência de polinômios ortogonais. Neste trabalho, usaremos os polinômios de Chebyshev para obter polinômios quase-ortogonais e usaremos resultados sobre o comportamento de zeros desses polinômios para obter informações sobre o comportamento dos zeros de polinômios auto-recíprocos. / Abstract: The main objective of this work is to study the behavior of the zeros of some classes of self-reciprocal polynomials related to Chebyshev quasi-orthogonal polynomials of order one and two. The zeros of self-reciprocal polynomials are linked to the zeros of quasiorthogonal polynomials, which can be obtained from a sequence of orthogonal polynomials. In this work we use the Chebyshev polynomials to obtain classes of quasi-orthogonal polynomials and from results on the behavior of their zeros, we obtain information about the zeros of some classes of self-reciprocal polynomials. / Mestre