Title
The additive index of polynomials over finite fields
Abstract
In this paper we introduce the additive analogue of the index of a polynomial over finite fields. We show that every polynomial P(x)∈Fq[x] can be expressed uniquely in its additive index form such that P(x)=f(L(x))+M(x) where L(x),M(x) are p-linearized polynomials over Fq, deg⁡(M)<deg⁡(L), L(x) splits completely over Fq and L is of the maximal degree. As applications, we study several problems in the theory of polynomials over finite fields in terms of their additive indices, such as value set sizes, bounds on multiplicative character sums, and characterization of permutation polynomials.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.ffa.2022.102002
Finite Fields and Their Applications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
primary,secondary
Journal
79
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1071-5797
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lucas Reis123.80
Qiang Wang223737.93