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On the value set of small families of polynomials over a finite field, II

Guillermo Matera, Mariana Pérez, Melina Privitelli (2014)

Acta Arithmetica

We obtain an estimate on the average cardinality (d,s,a) of the value set of any family of monic polynomials in q [ T ] of degree d for which s consecutive coefficients a = ( a d - 1 , . . . , a d - s ) are fixed. Our estimate asserts that ( d , s , a ) = μ d q + ( q 1 / 2 ) , where μ d : = r = 1 d ( ( - 1 ) r - 1 ) / ( r ! ) . We also prove that ( d , s , a ) = μ ² d q ² + ( q 3 / 2 ) , where ₂(d,s,a) is the average second moment of the value set cardinalities for any family of monic polynomials of q [ T ] of degree d with s consecutive coefficients fixed as above. Finally, we show that ( d , 0 ) = μ ² d q ² + ( q ) , where ₂(d,0) denotes the average second moment for all monic polynomials...

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