The use of finite fields to compute convolutions

  • Authors:
  • I. Reed;Treiu-Kien Truong

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A transform is defined in the Galois field ofq^2elementsGF(q^2), a finite field analogous to the field of complex numbers, whenqis a prime such that (--1) is not a quadratic residue. It is shown that the action of this transform overGF(q^2)is equivalent to the discrete Fourier transform of a sequence of complex integers of finite dynamic range. Ifqis a Mersenne prime, one can utilize the fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm to yield a fast convolution without the usual roundoff problem of complex numbers.