Title
Block companion Singer cycles, primitive recursive vector sequences, and coprime polynomial pairs over finite fields.
Abstract
We discuss a conjecture concerning the enumeration of nonsingular matrices over a finite field that are block companion and whose order is the maximum possible in the corresponding general linear group. A special case is proved using some recent results on the probability that a pair of polynomials with coefficients in a finite field is coprime. Connection with an older problem of Niederreiter about the number of splitting subspaces of a given dimension are outlined and an asymptotic version of the conjectural formula is established. Some applications to the enumeration of nonsingular Toeplitz matrices of a given size over a finite field are also discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.ffa.2011.02.008
Finite Fields and Their Applications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
11T35,11T06,20G40,15B05
Journal
17
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
1071-5797
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.86
8
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sudhir R. Ghorpade18012.16
Samrith Ram2203.52