Symbolic Computation Group

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Census of polynomials
Joachim von zur Gathen, B-IT, University of Bonn, Germany
Friday, September 10, 2010 at 3:30pm, at U. of Waterloo

Abstract:

How many reducible polynomials are there over a finite field? How many squareful ones? Decomposable? Our census looks at such minority polynomials, both multivariate and, for decomposable ones, univariate. Exact results are usually possible but too complicated to be informative. We aim for concise statistical results with rapidly decaying relative error bounds. Joint work with Mark Giesbrecht, Alfredo Viola, and Konstantin Ziegler.

This will also be part of the Tutte Symposium series.

 

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