Irreducible trinomials over finite fields

  • Authors:
  • Joachim von zur Gathen

  • Affiliations:
  • Fakultät für Elektrotechnik, Informatik, Mathematik, Universität Paderborn, D-33095 Paderborn, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Mathematics of Computation
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A necessary condition for irreducibility of a trinomial over a finite field, based on classical results of Stickelberger and Swan, is established. It is applied in the special case F3, and some experimental discoveries are reported.