On the difference between permutation polynomials

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Abstract: The well-known Chowla and Zassenhaus conjecture, proven by Cohen in 1990, states that if p>(d23d+4)2, then there is no complete mapping polynomial f in Fp[x] of degree dge2. For arbitrary finite fields Fq, a similar non-existence result is obtained recently by Ic si k, Topuzou glu and Winterhof in terms of the Carlitz rank of f. Cohen, Mullen and Shiue generalized the Chowla-Zassenhaus-Cohen Theorem significantly in 1995, by considering differences of permutation polynomials. More precisely, they showed that if f and f+g are both permutation polynomials of degree dge2 over Fp, with p>(d23d+4)2, then the degree k of g satisfies kgeq3d/5, unless g is constant. In this article, assuming f and f+g are permutation polynomials in Fq[x], we give lower bounds for k%=mathrmdeg(h) in terms of the Carlitz rank of f and q. Our results generalize the above mentioned result of Ic si k et al. We also show for a special class of polynomials f of Carlitz rank ngeq1 that if f+xk is a permutation of Fq, with gcd(k+1,q1)=1, then kgeq(qn)/(n+3).









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