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Finding roots of polynomials over finite fields

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Abstract

We propose an improved algorithm for finding roots of polynomials over finite fields. This makes possible significant speedup of the decoding process of Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem, Reed-Solomon, and some other error-correcting codes.

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@article{arxiv.cs/0606035,
  title  = {Finding roots of polynomials over finite fields},
  author = {Sergei V. Fedorenko and Piter V. Trifonov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0606035},
  year   = {2007}
}

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6 pages. IEEE Transactions on Communications

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