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Self-reciprocal polynomials and coterm polynomials

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We classify all self-reciprocal polynomials arising from reversed Dickson polynomials over \(\mathbb {Z}\) and \(\mathbb {F}_p\), where p is prime. As a consequence, we also obtain coterm polynomials arising from reversed Dickson polynomials.

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The author would like to thank Sartaj Ul Hasan for drawing his attention to [12]. The author is also grateful to Boris Tsvelikhovsky for the valuable discussions in Section 2. He also wants to thank the referee for useful comments.

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Fernando, N. Self-reciprocal polynomials and coterm polynomials. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 86, 1707–1726 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-017-0419-4

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