Existence of nontrivial infinite F-sets over finite fields

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Let Fq\mathbb{F}_q be a finite field. An FF-set is a set S⊂Fq[x]\mathcal{S}\subset\mathbb{F}_q[x] such that, whenever P∈SP\in\mathcal{S} is monic and irreducible with constant term αP\alpha_P, every monic irreducible polynomial QQ dividing P−αPP-\alpha_P also belongs to S\mathcal{S}. Existence conjecture. For any finite field Fq\mathbb{F}_q, there exists a nontrivial, infinite FF-set. The paper proves this for Fp\mathbb{F}_p when pp is prime and p≡2p\equiv 2 or 5(mod9)5\pmod 9; the conjecture asks for the result over every finite field, extending beyond the cases established in the paper.

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Julio Andrade, Steven J. Miller, Kyle Pratt and Minh-Tam Trinh, “Special Sets of Primes in Function Fields”, arXiv:1309.5597 (2013).

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