Topics in Galois Fields

Dirk Hachenberger is a mathematician working in the fields of combinatorics, number theory, applicable algebra, finite geometry and coding theory. He is the recipient of the 2004 Hall medal of the Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications (ICA). He was also awarded the price for good teaching of the Bavarian State Minister for Science, Research and Arts in 2004. He has published the books "Finite Fields: Normal bases and completely free elements" (in English) and "Mathematics for computer scientists" (in German).Dieter Jungnickel is an internationally known mathematician working in the fields of applicable algebra, coding theory, design theory, finite geometry, combinatorics and combinatorial optimization. He is the recipient of the 2018 Euler medal of the Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications (ICA). He has published several well-known books, including “Design Theory”, “Optimization Methods”, “Finite fields: Structure and arithmetics”, “CodingTheory”, “Combinatorics” and “Graphs, Networks and Algorithms”, some of which have been published both in English and German.

• Basic Algebraic Structures and Elementary Number Theory.- Basics on Polynomials- Field Extensions and the Basic Theory of Galois Fields.- The Algebraic Closure of a Galois Field.- Irreducible Polynomials over Finite Fields.- Factorization of Univariate Polynomials over Finite Fields.- Matrices over Finite Fields.- Basis Representations and Arithmetics.- Shift Register Sequences.- Characters, Gauss Sums, and the DFT.- Normal Bases and Cyclotomic Modules.- Complete Normal Bases and Generalized Cyclotomic Modules.- Primitive Normal Bases.- Primitive Elements in Affin Hyperplanes.- List of Symbols.- References.- Index.

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