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The Cycle Structure of LFSR with Arbitrary Characteristic Polynomial over Finite Fields

Information Theory 2019-06-13 v1 math.IT

Abstract

We determine the cycle structure of linear feedback shift register with arbitrary monic characteristic polynomial over any finite field. For each cycle, a method to find a state and a new way to represent the state are proposed.

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@article{arxiv.1612.07928,
  title  = {The Cycle Structure of LFSR with Arbitrary Characteristic Polynomial over Finite Fields},
  author = {Zuling Chang and Martianus Frederic Ezerman and San Ling and Huaxiong Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.07928},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

An extended abstract containing preliminary results was presented at SETA 2016