Pacific Journal of Mathematics

Lagrange inversion over finite fields.

John Greene

Source: Pacific J. Math. Volume 130, Number 2 (1987), 313-325.

Primary Subjects: 11T21
Secondary Subjects: 11B65

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Zentralblatt MATH identifier: 0653.12013
Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet): MR914104

References

[4] Examples. Inthis section wegive some short examples ofTheo- rem 2.7andanextended discussion of the uses of Theorem 2.8in deriving character sum identities. As a first example, if f(x) =A(l - x) andg(x) =x,then y- y)x(y) =T^T / U x). By Theorem 2.7(a), wehave (4.1)A(l -x) =(x) +--L-A,)(x).
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