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Dedicated to the memory of A. I. Mal'tsev.
Novosibirsk. Translated from Sibirskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 30, No. 6, pp. 98–109, November–December, 1989.
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Kuz'min, E.N. Irreducible polynomials over a finite field. Sib Math J 30, 915–925 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00970914
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