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A278573 Irregular triangle read by rows: row n lists values of k in range 1 <= k <= n-1 such x^n + x^k + 1 is irreducible (mod 2), or -1 if no such k exists. 2
1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 3, 1, 3, 5, 1, 3, 4, 6, -1, 1, 4, 5, 8, 3, 7, 2, 9, 3, 5, 7, 9, -1, 5, 9, 1, 4, 7, 8, 11, 14, -1, 3, 5, 6, 11, 12, 14, 3, 7, 9, 11, 15, -1, 3, 5, 15, 17, 2, 7, 14, 19, 1, 21, 5, 9, 14, 18, -1, 3, 7, 18, 22, -1, -1, 1, 3, 9, 13, 15, 19, 25, 27, 2, 27, 1, 9, 21, 29, 3, 6, 7, 13 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
2,3
COMMENTS
Row n (if it is not -1) is invariant under the map k -> n-k. - Robert Israel, Mar 14 2018
REFERENCES
Alanen, J. D., and Donald E. Knuth. "Tables of finite fields." Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series A (1964): 305-328.
John Brillhart, On primitive trinomials (mod 2), unpublished Bell Labs Memorandum, 1968.
Marsh, Richard W. Table of irreducible polynomials over GF (2) through degree 19. Office of Technical Services, US Department of Commerce, 1957.
LINKS
Robert Israel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 2..4558 (rows 2 to 1300, flattened)
Joerg Arndt, Complete list of primitive trinomials over GF(2) up to degree 400. (Lists primitive trinomials only.)
Joerg Arndt, Complete list of primitive trinomials over GF(2) up to degree 400 [Cached copy, with permission]
A. J. Menezes, P. C. van Oorschot and S. A. Vanstone, Handbook of Applied Cryptography, CRC Press, 1996; see Table 4.6.
Svein Mossige, Table of irreducible polynomials over GF[2] of degrees 10 through 20, Mathematics of Computation 26.120 (1972): 1007-1009.
N. Zierler and J. Brillhart, On primitive trinomials (mod 2), Information and Control 13 1968 541-554.
N. Zierler and J. Brillhart, On primitive trinomials (mod 2), II, Information and Control 14 1969 566-569.
EXAMPLE
Triangle begins:
1,
1, 2,
1, 3,
2, 3,
1, 3, 5,
1, 3, 4, 6,
-1,
1, 4, 5, 8,
3, 7,
2, 9,
3, 5, 7, 9,
-1,
5, 9,
1, 4, 7, 8, 11, 14,
-1,
3, 5, 6, 11, 12, 14,
3, 7, 9, 11, 15,
-1,
3, 5, 15, 17,
2, 7, 14, 19,
1, 21,
...
MAPLE
for n from 2 to 30 do
S:= select(k -> Irreduc(x^n+x^k+1) mod 2, [$1..n-1]);
if S = [] then print(-1) else print(op(S)) fi
od: # Robert Israel, Mar 14 2018
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A151682 A318928 A159918 * A108663 A307314 A057940
KEYWORD
sign,tabf
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Nov 27 2016
STATUS
approved

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