Department of Applied Mathematics, Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou, 450002, People's Republic of China ; Department of Applied Mathematics, Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou, 450002, People's Republic of China
Abstract:
In this paper, we investigate the Hansen-Mullen conjecture with the help of some formal series similar to the Artin-Hasse exponential series over -adic number fields and the estimates of character sums over Galois rings. Given we prove, for large enough , the Hansen-Mullen conjecture that there exists a primitive polynomial over of degree with the -th ( coefficient fixed in advance except when if is odd and when if is even.