Perfect polynomials over \(\mathbb F_4\) with less than five prime factors (Q2466280): Difference between revisions

Summary: A perfect polynomial \(A\in\mathbb{F}_4[x]\) is a monic polynomial that equals the sum of its monic divisors. There are no perfect polynomials \(A\in\mathbb{F}_4[x]\) with exactly \(3\) prime divisors, i.e., of the form \(A=P^aQ^bR^c\) where \(P,Q,R\in\mathbb{F}_4[x]\) are irreducible and \(a,b,c\) are positive integers. We characterize the perfect polynomials \(A\) with \(4\) prime divisors such that one of them has degree \(1\). Assume that \(A\) has an arbitrary number of distinct prime divisors, we discuss some simple congruence obstructions that arise and we propose three conjectures.