The strong primitive normal basis theorem

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DOI10.4064/AA143-4-1zbMATH Open1219.11182arXivmath/0610400OpenAlexW2037927924MaRDI QIDQ3569563FDOQ3569563


Authors: Stephen D. Cohen, Sophie Huczynska Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 21 June 2010

Published in: Acta Arithmetica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An element w of the extension E of degree n over the finite field F=GF(q) is called free over F if {w, w^q,...,w^{q^{n-1}}} is a (normal) basis of E/F. The Primitive Normal Basis Theorem, first established in full by Lenstra and Schoof (1987), asserts that for any such extension E/F, there exists an element w in E such that w is simultaneously primitive (i.e., generates the multiplicative group of E) and free over F. In this paper we prove the following strengthening of this theorem: aside from five specific extensions E/F, there exists an element w in E such that both w and w^{-1} are simultaneously primitive and free over F.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610400




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