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Irreducible Polynomials Over a Finite Field with Restricted Coefficients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2019

Sam Porritt*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University College London, London, England Email: ucahspo@ucl.ac.uk
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Abstract

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We prove a function field analogue of Maynard’s celebrated result about primes with restricted digits. That is, for certain ranges of parameters $n$ and $q$, we prove an asymptotic formula for the number of irreducible polynomials of degree $n$ over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_{q}$ whose coefficients are restricted to lie in a given subset of $\mathbb{F}_{q}$.

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© Canadian Mathematical Society 2018 

Footnotes

This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/L015234/1 via the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Geometry and Number Theory (The London School of Geometry and Number Theory), University College London.

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