On the generalized distributive set of a finite nearfield

Abstract: For any nearfield

(R, +, c i r c)

, denote by

D (R)

the set of all distributive elements of

R

. Let

R

be a finite Dickson nearfield that arises from Dickson pair

(q, n)

. For a given pair

we study the generalized distributive set

where

is the multiplication of the Dickson nearfield. We find that

is not in general a subfield of the finite field

m a t h b b F_{q^{n}}

. In contrast to the situation for

D (R)

, we also find that

is not in general a subnearfield of

R

. We obtain sufficient conditions on

for

to be a subfield of

m a t h b b F_{q^{n}}

and derive an algorithm that tests if

is a subfield of

m a t h b b F_{q^{n}}

or not. We also study the notions of

R

-dimension,

R

-basis, seed sets and seed number of

R

-subgroups of the Beidleman near-vector spaces

R^{m}

where

m

is a positive integer. Finally we determine the maximal

R

-dimension of

g e n (v_{1}, v_{2})

for

v_{1}, v_{2} i n R^{m}

, where

g e n (v_{1}, v_{2})

is the smallest

R

-subgroup containing the vectors

v_{1}

and

v_{2}

.

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