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I'm very bad in computations of this kind :/. I don't know tricks for computing the discriminant of a polynomial, only the definition and using the resultant, but it's very complicated to do only with that tools. I need some help please ._.

I have to prove that the discriminant of $\Phi_p$ is $ (-1)^{\frac{p-1}{2}}p^{p-2}$ I don't know if it's neccesary to assume that $p$ is prime.

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In what follows I will assume that $p$ is an odd prime. Let $\zeta$ be a primitive $p$-th root of unity and denote its conjugates by $\zeta_1,\ldots,\zeta_{p-1}$, so we have $$\Phi_p(X) = \frac{X^p-1}{X-1} = \prod_{i=1}^{p-1} (X-\zeta_i).$$ The discriminant of $\Phi_p$ then can be computed as $$\Delta = \prod_{i

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    Yes, thanks, I fixed it2017-11-14