Stable polynomials over finite fields
Author(s) -
Domingo GómezPérez,
Alejandro P. Nicolás,
Alina Ostafe,
Daniel Sadornil
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
revista matemática iberoamericana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.569
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 2235-0616
pISSN - 0213-2230
DOI - 10.4171/rmi/791
Subject(s) - finite field , mathematics , pure mathematics , algebra over a field , discrete mathematics
We use the theory of resultants to study the stability, that is, the property of having all iterates irreducible, of an arbitrary polynomial f over a finite field Fq. This result partially generalizes the quadratic polynomial case described by R. Jones and N. Boston. Moreover, for p = 3, we show that certain polynomials of degree three are not stable. We also use the Weil bound for multiplicative character sums to estimate the number of stable polynomials over a finite field of odd characteristic
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