Lamps, Factorizations and Finite Fields

Bartholdi, Laurent

doi:10.2307/2695298

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Lamps, Factorizations and Finite Fields

ContributorsBartholdi, Laurent

Published inThe American mathematical monthly, vol. 107, no. 5, p. 429-436

Publication date2000

Abstract

I answer a question from the 1993 International Mathematical Olympiads by constructing an equivalent algebraic problem, and unearth a surprising behaviour of some polynomials over the two-element field.

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arxiv : math.CO

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Faculté des sciences / Section de mathématiques

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BARTHOLDI, Laurent. Lamps, Factorizations and Finite Fields. In: The American mathematical monthly, 2000, vol. 107, n° 5, p. 429–436. doi: 10.2307/2695298

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PID : unige:12499
DOI : 10.2307/2695298
arXiv : math/9910056v1

Journal ISSN0002-9890

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Lamps, Factorizations and Finite Fields

I answer a question from the 1993 International Mathematical Olympiads by constructing an equivalent algebraic problem, and unearth a surprising behaviour of some polynomials over the two-element field.

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