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The Graph Structure of Chebyshev Polynomials over Finite Fields and Applications

Discrete Mathematics 2018-03-20 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We completely describe the functional graph associated to iterations of Chebyshev polynomials over finite fields. Then, we use our structural results to obtain estimates for the average rho length, average number of connected components and the expected value for the period and preperiod of iterating Chebyshev polynomials.

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@article{arxiv.1803.06539,
  title  = {The Graph Structure of Chebyshev Polynomials over Finite Fields and Applications},
  author = {Claudio Qureshi and Daniel Panario},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.06539},
  year   = {2018}
}
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