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The Artin-Hasse series and Laguerre polynomials modulo a prime

Number Theory 2023-08-29 v1

Abstract

For an odd prime pp, let Ep(X)=n=0anXnFp[[X]]\mathrm{E}_{p}(X)=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} a_{n}X^{n}\in\mathbb{F}_p[[X]] denote the reduction modulo pp of the Artin-Hasse exponential series. It is known that there exists a series G(Xp)Fp[[X]]G(X^p)\in \mathbb{F}_{p}[[X]], such that Lp1(T(X))(X)=Ep(X)G(Xp)L_{p-1}^{(-T(X))}(X)=\mathrm{E}_{p}(X)\cdot G(X^p), where T(X)=i=1XpiT(X)=\sum_{i=1}^{\infty}X^{p^{i}} and Lp1(α)(X)L_{p-1}^{(\alpha)}(X) denotes the (generalized) Laguerre polynomial of degree p1p-1. We prove that G(Xp)=n=0(1)nanpXnpG(X^p)=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}(-1)^n a_{np}X^{np}, and show that it satisfies G(Xp)G(Xp)T(X)=Xp.G(X^p)\,G(-X^p)\,T(X)=X^p.

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@article{arxiv.2308.14736,
  title  = {The Artin-Hasse series and Laguerre polynomials modulo a prime},
  author = {Marina Avitabile and Sandro Mattarei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.14736},
  year   = {2023}
}

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