Necessary conditions for reversed Dickson polynomials of the second kind to be permutational

Shaofang Hong, Xiaoer Qin

Published 2014-04-08Version 1

In this paper, we present several necessary conditions for the reversed Dickson polynomial $E_{n}(1, x)$ of the second kind to be a permutation of $\mathbb{F}_{q}$. In particular, we give explicit evaluation of the sum $\sum_{a\in \mathbb{F}_{q}}E_{n}(1,a)$.