This paper reviews some of the known algorithms for factoring polynomials over finite fields and presents a new deterministic procedure for reducing the problem of factoring an arbitrary polynomial ...
Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 45, No. 171 (Jul., 1985), pp. 251-261 (11 pages) We present a probabilistic algorithm that finds the irreducible factors of a bivariate polynomial with coefficients ...
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