Permutation Polynomials Modulo 2w

  • Authors:
  • Ronald L. Rivest

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, f1rivest@mit.eduf1

  • Venue:
  • Finite Fields and Their Applications
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We give an exact characterization of permutation polynomials modulo n=2^w, w=2: a polynomial P(x)=a"0+a"1x +...+a"dx^d with integral coefficients is a permutation polynomial modulo n if and only if a"1 is odd, (a"2+a"4+a"6+...) is even, and (a"3+a"5+a"7+...) is even. We also characterize polynomials defining latin squares modulo n=2^w, but prove that polynomial multipermutations (that is, a pair of polynomials defining a pair of orthogonal latin squares) modulo n=2^wdo not exist.