On the Automorphism Group of a Binary Form Associated with Algebraic Trigonometric Quantities

Abstract

Let $F(x, y)$ be a binary form of degree at least three and non-zero discriminant. In this article we compute the automorphism group $\operatorname{Aut} F$ for four families of binary forms. The first two families that we are interested in are homogenizations of minimal polynomials of $2\cos\left(\frac{2\pi}{n}\right)$ and $2\sin\left(\frac{2\pi}{n}\right)$, which we denote by $\Psi_n(x, y)$ and $\Pi_n(x, y)$, respectively. The remaining two forms that we consider are homogenizations of Chebyshev polynomials of first and second kinds, denoted $T_n(x, y)$ and $U_n(x, y)$, respectively.