Applications
A practical application of the Newton polygon comes from the following result:
Let
be the slopes of the line segments of the Newton polygon of (as defined above) arranged in increasing order, and let
be the corresponding lengths of the line segments projected onto the x-axis (i.e. if we have a line segment stretching between the points and then the length is ). Then for each integer, has exactly roots with valuation .
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