The Concept of q -Cycle and Applications
Umarin Pintoptang, Suton Tadee, Vichian Laohakosol · Journal of Discrete Mathematics · 2014
The concept of q -cycle is investigated for its properties and applications. Connections with irreducible polynomials over a finite field are established with emphases on the notions of order and degree. The results are applied to deduce new results about primitive and self-reciprocal polynomials.