Irreducibility testing and factorization of polynomials

Leonard M. Adlcman, Andrew M. Odlyzko

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Abstract

It is shown that under certain hypotheses, irreducibility testing and factorization of polynomials with integer coefficients are polynomial time reducible to primality testing and factorization of integers, respectively. Combined with recently discovered fast primality tests, this yields an almost polynomial time irreducibility algorithm. The assertions of irreducibility produced by this algorithm are always certain and yield short proofs of irreducibility.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)699-709
Number of pages11
JournalMathematics of Computation
Volume41
Issue number164
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 1983

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