@article{10902/8028, year = {2014}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10902/8028}, abstract = {We use the theory of resultants to study the stability, that is, the property of having all iterates irreducible, of an arbitrary polynomial f over a finite field Fq. This result partially generalizes the quadratic polynomial case described by R. Jones and N. Boston. Moreover, for p = 3, we show that certain polynomials of degree three are not stable. We also use the Weil bound for multiplicative character sums to estimate the number of stable polynomials over a finite field of odd characteristic.}, publisher = {European Mathematical Society}, publisher = {Revista Matemática Iberoamericana, Vol. 30, N. 2 (2014), Pp. 523-535}, title = {Stable Polynomials over Finite Fields}, author = {Gómez Pérez, Domingo and Nicolás, Alejandro P. and Ostafe, Alina and Sadornil Renedo, Daniel}, }