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Counting Roots of Polynomials Over Prime Power Rings

Number Theory 2019-02-13 v1 Computational Complexity Symbolic Computation

Abstract

Suppose pp is a prime, tt is a positive integer, and f ⁣ ⁣Z[x]f\!\in\!\mathbb{Z}[x] is a univariate polynomial of degree dd with coefficients of absolute value < ⁣pt<\!p^t. We show that for any fixed tt, we can compute the number of roots in Z/(pt)\mathbb{Z}/(p^t) of ff in deterministic time (d+logp)O(1)(d+\log p)^{O(1)}. This fixed parameter tractability appears to be new for t ⁣ ⁣3t\!\geq\!3. A consequence for arithmetic geometry is that we can efficiently compute Igusa zeta functions ZZ, for univariate polynomials, assuming the degree of ZZ is fixed.

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@article{arxiv.1711.01355,
  title  = {Counting Roots of Polynomials Over Prime Power Rings},
  author = {Qi Cheng and Shuhong Gao and J. Maurice Rojas and Daqing Wan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.01355},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

title page, plus 11 pages, no illustrations, submitted to a conference