Distribution of irreducible polynomials of small degrees over finite fields

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The authors verify the following conjecture, where \(\mathbb{F}_q\) is a finite field of order \(q\), a power of a prime. Conjecture B. Let \(a \in \mathbb{F}_q\) and let \(n\in\mathbb{N}\) with \(n>1\), and fix \(j\in\mathbb{Z}\) with \(0\leq j< n\). Then there exists an irreducible polynomial \(f(x)=x^n+\sum^{n-1}_{k=0} a_kx^k\) over \(\mathbb{F}_q\) with \(a_j=a\) except when (B1) \(q\) is arbitrary and \(j=a= 0\); (B2) \(q=2^m\), \(n=2\), \(j=1\), and \(a=0\).




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