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A characterization and an explicit description of all primitive polynomials of degree two over finite fields

General Mathematics 2024-09-27 v1

Abstract

For polynomials of degree two over finite fields, we present an improvement of Fitzgerald's characterization (Finite Fields Appl. 9(1):117-121, 2003). We then use this new characterization to obtain an explicit, complete, and simple description of all primitive polynomials of degree two over finite fields.

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@article{arxiv.2409.17147,
  title  = {A characterization and an explicit description of all primitive polynomials of degree two over finite fields},
  author = {Gerardo Vega},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.17147},
  year   = {2024}
}