Deterministic polynomial factorisation modulo many primes
Number Theory
2025-09-17 v1 Computational Complexity
Abstract
Designing a deterministic polynomial time algorithm for factoring univariate polynomials over finite fields remains a notorious open problem. In this paper, we present an unconditional deterministic algorithm that takes as input an irreducible polynomial , and computes the factorisation of its reductions modulo for all primes up to a prescribed bound . The \emph{average running time per prime} is polynomial in the size of the input and the degree of the splitting field of over . In particular, if is Galois, we succeed in factoring in (amortised) deterministic polynomial time.
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@article{arxiv.2509.12705,
title = {Deterministic polynomial factorisation modulo many primes},
author = {Daniel Altman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.12705},
year = {2025}
}
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25 pages