Properties
- As stated above, the GCD of two polynomials exists if the coefficients belong either to a field, the ring of the integers or more generally to a unique factorization domain.
- If c is any common divisor of p and q, then c divides their GCD.
- for any polynomial r. This property is at the basis of the proof of Euclid's algorithm.
- For any invertible element k of the ring of the coefficients, .
- Hence for any scalars such that is invertible.
- If, then .
- If, then .
- For two univariate polynomials p and q over a field, there exist polynomials a and b, such that and divides every such linear combination of p and q (Bézout's identity).
- The greatest common divisor of three or more polynomials may be defined similarly as for two polynomials. It may be computed recursively from GCD's of two polynomials by the identities:
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