Counting Value Sets: Algorithm and Complexity

Qi Cheng, Joshua E. Hill, Daqing Wan

Let $p$ be a prime. Given a polynomial in $\F_{p^m}[x]$ of degree $d$ over the finite field $\F_{p^m}$, one can view it as a map from $\F_{p^m}$ to $\F_{p^m}$, and examine the imag…