login
This site is supported by donations to The OEIS Foundation.
Logo

Hints
(Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!)
A001115 Maximal number of pairwise relatively prime polynomials of degree n over GF(2).
(Formerly M0575 N0209)
0
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 14, 23, 38, 64, 113, 200, 358, 653, 1202, 2223, 4151, 7781, 14659, 27721, 52603, 100084, 190969, 365134, 699617, 1342923, 2582172, 4972385, 9588933, 18515328, 35794987, 69278386, 134224480, 260309786, 505302925 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENTS

For n>=4, a maximal set can be chosen by taking all irreducible polynomials of degree n, the squares of all irreducible polynomials of degree n/2 (if n is even) and, for each irreducible polynomial p of degree d with 1 <= d < n/2, a product p*q where q is irreducible of degree n-d. The q's should all be distinct, which is possible when n>=4.

REFERENCES

Bossen, D. C. and Yau, S. S.; Redundant residue polynomial codes. Information and Control 13 (1968) 597-618.

N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

LINKS

Table of n, a(n) for n=0..34.

FORMULA

a(n) = P(n) + sum_{i from 1 to floor(n/2)} P(i), where P(n) = A001037(n) = number of irreducible polynomials of degree n.

EXAMPLE

n=1: x and x+1. n=2: x^2, x^2+1, x^2+x+1. n=3: x^3, x^3+1, x^3+x+1, x^3+x^2+1.

MATHEMATICA

p[0]=1; p[n_] := Sum[If[Mod[n, d]==0, MoebiusMu[n/d]2^d, 0], {d, 1, n}]/n; a[n_] := p[n]+Sum[p[i], {i, 1, Floor[n/2]}]

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A018140 A005579 A000381 * A173278 A173289 A096824

Adjacent sequences:  A001112 A001113 A001114 * A001116 A001117 A001118

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane.

EXTENSIONS

Edited by Dean Hickerson (dean.hickerson(AT)yahoo.com), Nov 18 2002

STATUS

approved

Lookup | Welcome | Wiki | Register | Music | Plot 2 | Demos | Index | Browse | More | WebCam
Contribute new seq. or comment | Format | Transforms | Puzzles | Hot | Classics
Recent Additions | More pages | Superseeker | Maintained by The OEIS Foundation Inc.

Content is available under The OEIS End-User License Agreement .

Last modified May 24 13:02 EDT 2013. Contains 225620 sequences.