Lenstraβ²s Proof of the Carlitz-Wan Conje
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S.D. Cohen; M.D. Fried
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Article
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1995
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We give a proof, following an argument of Lenstra, of the conjecture of Carlitz (1966) as generalized by Wan (1993). This says that there are no exceptional polynomials of degree \(n\) over \(\mathbb{F}_{q}\) if \((n, q-1)>1\). Fried, Guralnick, and Saxl previously proved Carlitz's conjecture: there