{ "id": "1210.1893", "version": "v1", "published": "2012-10-05T23:41:06.000Z", "updated": "2012-10-05T23:41:06.000Z", "title": "The number of roots of polynomials of large degree in a prime field", "authors": [ "Amit Ghosh", "Kenneth Ward" ], "comment": "16 pages", "doi": "10.1093/imrn/rnt227", "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "We establish asymptotic upper bounds on the number of zeros modulo $p$ of certain polynomials with integer coefficients, with $p$ prime numbers arbitrarily large. The polynomials we consider have degree of size $p$ and are obtained by truncating certain power series with rational coefficients that satisfy simple differential equations.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2012-10-05T23:41:06.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11J81", "11G20", "11T23", "11T55" ], "keywords": [ "large degree", "prime field", "polynomials", "satisfy simple differential equations", "establish asymptotic upper bounds" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 16, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2012arXiv1210.1893G" } } }