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Deterministic polynomial factorisation modulo many primes

Published: September 16, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2509.12705v1

By: Daniel Altman

Potential Business Impact:

Breaks down math problems into smaller pieces.

Business Areas:
Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Hardware

Designing a deterministic polynomial time algorithm for factoring univariate polynomials over finite fields remains a notorious open problem. In this paper, we present an unconditional deterministic algorithm that takes as input an irreducible polynomial $f \in \mathbb{Z}[x]$, and computes the factorisation of its reductions modulo $p$ for all primes $p$ up to a prescribed bound $N$. The \emph{average running time per prime} is polynomial in the size of the input and the degree of the splitting field of $f$ over $\mathbb{Q}$. In particular, if $f$ is Galois, we succeed in factoring in (amortised) deterministic polynomial time.

Page Count
25 pages

Category
Mathematics:
Number Theory