Primitive element pairs with a prescribed trace in the cubic extension of a finite field [article]

Andrew R. Booker, Stephen D. Cohen, Nicol Leong, Tim Trudgian
2022
We prove that for any prime power $q\notin\{3,4,5\}$, the cubic extension $\mathbb{F}_{q^3}$ of the finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ contains a primitive element $ξ$ such that $ξ+ξ^{-1}$ is also primitive, and $\textrm{Tr}_{\mathbb{F}_{q^3}/\mathbb{F}_q}(ξ)=a$ for any prescribed $a\in\mathbb{F}_q$. This completes the proof of a conjecture of Gupta, Sharma, and Cohen concerning the analogous problem over an extension of arbitrary degree $n\ge3$.
doi:10.48550/arxiv.2202.00829 fatcat:gs2eubzolbdnhfoqohscpqj4ye