The characteristic-two Artin–Schreier tower step #
The polynomial X² + X + a has no root exactly when its quadratic quotient is
an extension field. In that extension, multiplication of a by the canonical
root supplies the next no-root parameter. These are algebraic correctness
lemmas for the explicit binary tower constructor; they do not choose a root
by searching through the field.
The monic quadratic used by the characteristic-two tower.
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The specified basis of every monic quadratic quotient, indexed by Fin 2.
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Each element has its two coefficients in the specified quadratic power basis.
The coefficient of the root in a zero linear combination is zero.
The root of the quadratic satisfies its defining Artin–Schreier equation.
One no-root quadratic gives the next one over its explicitly presented extension.
The multiplicative next parameter is the uniform cubic expression in the new root.
The source's cubic expression therefore preserves the no-root invariant.
The initial binary quadratic has no root.
The quadratic root cannot already lie in the original field.
A binary annihilating polynomial of the old dimension gives the next
irreducible polynomial by substitution of X² + X. The hypothesis on g
is supplied by the explicit Frobenius orbit product, after coefficient descent.
Flattening the quadratic extension preserves the cubic no-root invariant. Only the canonical embedding of the flat quotient is required; no search for an isomorphism or a field element is part of this argument.
Transport the canonical-root cubic invariant across equality of binary moduli.