2022•Acta ArithmeticaOpen access

Low-degree permutation rational functions over finite fields

Zhiguo Ding, Michael E. Zieve

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We determine all degree-$4$ rational functions $f(X)\in \mathbb {F}_q(X)$ which permute $\mathbb {P}^1(\mathbb {F}_q)$, and answer two questions of Ferraguti and Micheli about the number of such functions and the number of equivalence classes of such func

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We determine all degree-$4$ rational functions $f(X)\in \mathbb {F}_q(X)$ which permute $\mathbb {P}^1(\mathbb {F}_q)$, and answer two questions of Ferraguti and Micheli about the number of such functions and the number of equivalence classes of such func

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We determine all degree-$4$ rational functions $f(X)\in \mathbb {F}_q(X)$ which permute $\mathbb {P}^1(\mathbb {F}_q)$, and answer two questions of Ferraguti and Micheli about the number of such functions and the number of equivalence classes of such func

Key concepts: Mathematics, Degree (music), Rational function, Permutation (music), Combinatorics, Finite field, Equivalence (formal languages), Discrete mathematics

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