p. 93 - 112 Perfect polynomials over Fp with p + 1 irreducible divisors L. H. Gallardo and O. Rahavandrainy Received: March 3, 2013; Accepted: September 16, 2013 Abstract. We consider, for a fixed prime number p, monic polynomials in one variable over the finite field Fp, which are equal to the sum of their monic divisors. We give necessary conditions for the existence of such polynomials, called perfect polynomials, having p + 1 irreducible factors. These conditions allow us to describe the set of all perfect polynomials with p + 1 irreducible divisors in the first unknown case, namely, the case p = 3. Keywords: Sum of divisors; polynomials; finite fields; characteristic p. AMS Subject classification: Primary: 11T55, 11T06 PDF Compressed Postscript Version to read ISSN 0862-9544 (Printed edition) Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics Comenius University 842 48 Bratislava, Slovak Republic Telephone: + 421-2-60295111 Fax: + 421-2-65425882 e-Mail: amuc@fmph.uniba.sk Internet: www.iam.fmph.uniba.sk/amuc © 2014, ACTA MATHEMATICA UNIVERSITATIS COMENIANAE |