Frobenius matrices and a variant of Zolotarev's theorem
Number Theory
2021-01-28 v2
Abstract
In this paper, with the help of the theory of matrices and finite fields we generalize Zolotarev's theorem to an arbitrary finite dimensional vector space over , where denotes the finite field with elements.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2101.05558,
title = {Frobenius matrices and a variant of Zolotarev's theorem},
author = {Hai-Liang Wu and Li-Yuan Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.05558},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Our result is not new, which was obtained by Prof. P.L. Clark and Prof. A. Brunyate in the paper Extending the Zolotarev-Frobenius approach to quadratic reciprocity (pubished in the Ramanujan journal)