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A081844 Number of irreducible factors of x^(2n+1) - 1 over GF(2). +0
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OFFSET

0,2

COMMENT

Also number of nonisomorphic "pure" chain rings with certain parameters.

REFERENCES

G. Chass\'e, Combinatorial cycles of a polynomial map over a commutative field, Discrete Math. 61 (1986), 21-26.

E. W. Clark and J. J. Liang, Enumeration of finite commutative chain rings, J. Algebra 27 (1973), 445-453.

R. Lidl and H. Niederreiter, Finite Fields, Addison-Wesley, 1983; Theorem 2.47 page 65.

Pieter Moree, Posting to Number Theory List, Apr 11, 2003.

T. D. Rogers, The graph of the square mapping on the prime fields, Discrete Math. 148 (1996), 317-324.

D. Ulmer, Elliptic curves with large rank over function fields, Ann. of Math. 155 (2002), 295-315.

Troy Vasiga and Jeffrey Shallit, On the iteration of certain quadratic maps over GF(p), Discrete Mathematics, Volume 277, Issues 1-3, 2004, pages 219-240.

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=0..10000

Pieter Moree, Number of irreducible factors of x^n-1 over a finite field, Posting to Number Theory List, Apr 11, 2003.

D. Ulmer, Elliptic curves with large rank over function fields, Ann. of Math. 155 (2002), 295-315.

T. Vasiga and J. Shallit, On the iteration of certain quadratic maps over GF(p), Discrete Mathematics, Volume 277, Issues 1-3, 2004, Pages 219-240.

FORMULA

a(n) = sum_{ d|n } phi(d)/ord_2(d), where phi = A000010, ord_2 = A002326.

MAPLE

with(numtheory); o := n->if n=1 then 1 else order(2, n); fi; A081844 := proc(n) local d, t1; t1 := 0; for d to n do if n mod d = 0 then t1 := t1 + phi(d)/o(d); end if; end do; t1; end proc;

Factor(x^(2*n+1)-1) mod 2; nops(%);

CROSSREFS

Cf. A001037.

A000374 gives number of factors of x^n-1 for any n.

Cf. A037226 (number of primitive irreducible factors of x^(2n+1) - 1 over integers mod 2).

Sequence in context: A076902 A049113 A055093 this_sequence A110012 A023514 A039645

Adjacent sequences: A081841 A081842 A081843 this_sequence A081845 A081846 A081847

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

njas, Apr 11 2003

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