paper

A quick and dirty irreducibility Test for Multivariate Polynomials over F_q

arXiv:math/0404342

Abstract

We provide some statistics about an irreducibility/reducibility test for multivariate polynomials over finite fields based on counting points. The test works best for polynomials in a large number of variables and can also be applied to black box polynomials.

11 pages, 4 figures; AMSlatex