1. A family of semifields in characteristic 2
- Author
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Bartoli, Daniele, Bierbrauer, Jurgen, Kyureghyan, Gohar, Giulietti, Massimo, Marcugini, Stefano, and Pambianco, Fernanda
- Subjects
Mathematics - Combinatorics ,12K10, 51E15, 51A40 - Abstract
We construct and describe the basic properties of a family of semifields in characteristic $2.$ The construction relies on the properties of projective polynomials over finite fields. We start by associating non-associative products to each such polynomial. The resulting presemifields form the degenerate case of our family. They are isotopic to the Knuth semifields which are quadratic over left and right nucleus. The non-degenerate members of our family display a very different behaviour. Their left and right nucleus agrees with the center, the middle nucleus is quadratic over the center. None of those semifields is isotopic or Knuth equivalent to a commutative semifield. As a by-product we obtain the complete taxonomy of the characteristic $2$ semifields which are quadratic over the middle nucleus, bi-quadratic over the left and right nucleus and not isotopic to twisted fields. This includes {determining} when two such semifields are isotopic and the order of the autotopism group., Comment: 23 pages
- Published
- 2016