Explicit monoid structure is provided for the class of canonical subfield preserving polynomials over finite fields. Some classical results and asymptotic estimates will follow as corollaries.

Let Fq denote the finite field of q elements. O. Ahmadi and A. Menezes have recently considered the question about the possible number of elements with zero trace in polynomial bases of F2n over F2. Here we show that the Weil bound implies that there is such a basis with n + O(log n) zero-trace elements.

We investigate the lattice $𝐋\left(𝐕\right)$ of subspaces of an $m$-dimensional vector space $𝐕$ over a finite field $\mathrm{GF}\left(q\right)$ with a prime power $q=p^n$ together with the unary operation of orthogonality. It is well-known that this lattice is modular and that the orthogonality is an antitone involution. The lattice $𝐋\left(𝐕\right)$ satisfies the chain condition and we determine the number of covers of its elements, especially the number of its atoms. We characterize when orthogonality is a complementation and hence when $𝐋\left(𝐕\right)$ is orthomodular. For...