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Let $q$ be a power of $2$. Recently, Tu and Zeng considered trinomials of the form $f(X)=X+aX^{(1/4)q^2(q-1)}+bX^{(3/4)q^2(q-1)}$, where $a,b\in\Bbb F_{q^2}^*$. They proved that $f$ is a permutation polynomial of $\Bbb F_{q^2}$ if…

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Let $F({\bf x})={\bf x}^tQ_{\bf x}+\mathbf{b}^t{\bf x}+c\in\mathbb{Z}[{\bf x}]$ be a quadratic polynomial in $\ell (\ge 3 )$ variables ${\bf x} =(x_{1},...,x_{\ell})$, where $F({\bf x})$ is positive when ${\bf x}\in\mathbb{R}_{\ge…

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