On Ritt's decomposition theorem in the case of finite fields (Q2500605)
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On Ritt's decomposition theorem in the case of finite fields (English)
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17 August 2006
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The authors generalize a theorem of Ritt stating that all decomposition chains of a univariate polynomial satisfying certain tameness conditions have the same length. Their generalization is to the case of finite coefficient fields where the tameness condition is dropped.
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decomposition of polynomials
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Ritt's theorem
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Galois theory
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