{ "id": "1604.01007", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-04-04T19:57:21.000Z", "updated": "2016-04-04T19:57:21.000Z", "title": "On period polynomials of degree $2^m$ for finite fields", "authors": [ "Ioulia N. Baoulina" ], "comment": "16 pages", "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "We obtain explicit factorizations of reduced period polynomials of degree $2^m$, $m\\ge 4$, for finite fields of characteristic $p\\equiv 3$ or $5\\pmod{8}$. This extends the results of G. Myerson, who considered the cases $m=1$ and $m=2$, and S. Gurak, who studied the case $m=3$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-04-04T19:57:21.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11L05", "11T22", "11T24" ], "keywords": [ "finite fields", "reduced period polynomials", "explicit factorizations", "characteristic" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 16, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2016arXiv160401007B" } } }