2 papers
math.CO2004
The Affinity of a Permutation of a Finite Vector Space
W. Edwin Clark, Xiang-dong Hou, Alec Mihailovs
For a permutation f of an n-dimensional vector space V over a finite field of order q we let k-affinity(f) denote the number of k-flats X of V such that f(X) is also a k-flat. By k…
math.NT2001
Enumeration of Isomorphism Classes of Extensions of p-adic Fields
Xiang-dong Hou, Kevin Keating
Let be an algebraic closure of and let be a finite extension of contained in . Given positive integers and , the number of extensi…