A link between minimal value set polynomials and tamely ramified towers of function fields over finite fields

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce the notions of [Formula: see text]-polynomial and [Formula: see text]-minimal value set polynomial where [Formula: see text] is a polynomial over a finite field [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] is a finite subset of an algebraic closure of [Formula: see text]. We study some properties of these polynomials and we prove that the polynomials used by Garcia, Stichtenoth and Thomas in their work on good recursive tame towers are [Formula: see text]-minimal value set polynomials for [Formula: see text], whose [Formula: see text]-value sets can be explicitly computed in terms of the monomial [Formula: see text].