Permutation conjecture for a trinomial over fields of characteristic two

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Let n=2mn=2m be a positive integer, and let f(x)f(x) be the trinomial defined by equation (1) in the source over F22m{\mathbb F}_{2^{2m}}. A pair (s,t)(s,t) specifies the exponents in this trinomial. Permutation conjecture. If

gcd(m,5)=1and(s,t)=(411,1011),\gcd(m,5)=1\quad\text{and}\quad (s,t)=\left(\frac{4}{11},\frac{10}{11}\right),

then f(x)f(x) is a permutation polynomial over F22m{\mathbb F}_{2^{2m}}. The paper proves this conjecture by analyzing the quadratic factors of an eleventh-degree polynomial over F2n{\mathbb F}_{2^n}, so the claim is solved.

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Primary source

Nian Li and Qiaoyu Hu, “A conjecture on permutation trinomials over finite fields of characteristic two”, arXiv:1809.02809 (2018).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1708.04841, arXiv:1702.06446.

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