On the product of elements with prescribed trace

DOI10.1017/S1446788720000178MaRDI QIDQ5067207zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John Sheekey, Geertrui Van de Voorde, José Felipe Voloch

Publication date 1 April 2022

Published in Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09653

zbMATH Keywords

field extensionlinear setPN functiontrace

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite fields (field-theoretic aspects) (12E20) Non-Desarguesian affine and projective planes (51A35) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20)

Abstract: This paper deals with the following problem. Given a finite extension of fields $mathbbL/mathbbK$ and denoting the trace map from $mathbbL$ to $mathbbK$ by $mathrmTr$, for which elements $z$ in $mathbbL$, and $a$, $b$ in $mathbbK$, is it possible to write $z$ as a product $xcdoty$, where $x,yinmathbbL$ with $mathrmTr(x)=a,mathrmTr(y)=b$? We solve most of these problems for finite fields, with a complete solution when the degree of the extension is at least $5$. We also have results for arbitrary fields and extensions of degrees $2,3$ or $4$. We then apply our results to the study of PN functions, semifields, irreducible polynomials with prescribed coefficients, and to a problem from finite geometry concerning the existence of certain disjoint linear sets.

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