Some results on linearized trinomials that split completely

Abstract: Linearized polynomials over finite fields have been much studied over the last several decades. Recently there has been a renewed interest in linearized polynomials because of new connections to coding theory and finite geometry. We consider the problem of calculating the rank or nullity of a linearized polynomial

L (x) = s u m_{i = 0}^{d} a_{i} x^{q^{i}}

(where

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

) from the coefficients

a_{i}

. The rank and nullity of

L (x)

are the rank and nullity of the associated

m a t h b b F_{q}

-linear map

m a t h b b F_{q^{n}} l o n g r i g h t a r r o w m a t h b b F_{q^{n}}

. McGuire and Sheekey defined a

d i m e s d

matrix

A_{L}

with the property that

mbox{nullity} (L)=mbox{nullity} (A_L -I).

We present some consequences of this result for some trinomials that split completely, i.e., trinomials

L (x) = x^{q^{d}} - b x^{q} - a x

that have nullity

d

. We give a full characterization of these trinomials for

n l e d^{2} - d + 1

.

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