On the Computational Hardness of Testing Square-Freeness of Sparse Polynomials

  • Authors:
  • Marek Karpinski;Igor Shparlinski

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • AAECC-13 Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We show that deciding square-freeness of a sparse univariate polynomial over Z and over the algebraic closure of a finite field Fp of p elements is NP-hard. We also discuss some related open problems about sparse polynomials.