| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/15346 |
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| FullText URL | Mem_Fac_Eng_OU_35_9.pdf |
| Author | Abe, Takeji| Tsuboi, Tomoaki| |
| Abstract | The evaluation of microscopic inhomogeneity of polycrystalline aluminum is performed by measuring the hardness in respective grains. The recently developed ultra-micro hardness tester is used and the effects of the test pattern, the indentation load and the indenting velocity are examined. Then, the relationship between the increase in the hardness caused by the work hardening and the deformation of respective grains are statistically investigated. The hardness testing mode in which the initial load is applied before the onset of measurement gives more stable results than the testing mode without the initial load. The test condition with the indentation load of 9.8mN and the indentation velocity of 0.2 μm/sec seems to be optimum and gives the least dispersion of the measured values in grains. It is shown that the hardness values of respective grains in polycrystalline aluminum as well as their dispersion increase with the applied plastic strain. Discussion is made on the microscopic deformation behavior of polycrystalline aluminum. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2001-03-27 |
| Volume | volume35 |
| Issue | issue1-2 |
| Start Page | 9 |
| End Page | 19 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120002307825 |
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| FullText URL | Mem_Fac_Eng_OU_24_1_115.pdf |
| Author | Abe, Hirofumi| Nogata Mikio| |
| Abstract | The rapid economic growth of Japan in the postwar period has brought about the over-concentration of activities in a few large cities, and local regions have been losing their economic vitality due to the regional differentials and the population loss. Regional development planning in Japan has sought to achieve a balanced growth of the nation through the development of industries in local regions. This paper aims to examine the regional structure of manufacturing industries in the postwar period and to identify its current problems. Three methods, namely the analysis of coefficient of variation, the rateshare analysis and the shift-share analysis are applied using employment data of manufacturing industries for the years 1955 to 1985. Findings show that while the employment of manufacturing industries has been markedly decentralized from metropolitan to local regions, the disparities in growth rates still exist among regions. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 1989-11-29 |
| Volume | volume24 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 115 |
| End Page | 133 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120002307659 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/15441 |
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| FullText URL | Mem_Fac_Eng_OU_26_2_93.pdf |
| Author | Fukuyama, Atsushi| Kasai Takashi| Furutani, Yoichiro| |
| Abstract | A one-dimensional tokamak transport code (TASK/TR) has been developed to analyze the evolution of a burning plasma accompanied with fusion reaction. This code deals with the electrons, deuterons, tritons, thermalized α particles, fast α particles and beam ions, separately, in order to describe the dependence of the reaction rate on the ion mixture ratio. As an energy transport model, the drift wave turbulence mode is employed. The heating and current drive by the neutral beam injection as well as the pellet injection for fuelling are also included. This code is applied to a reactor-grade plasma aimed at in the ITER project. The cases of an ignited plasma and a current-driven plasma are examined. The required power for full current drive is estimated. The effect of pellet injection, both fuel and impurity ions, is also studied. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 1992-03-28 |
| Volume | volume26 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 93 |
| End Page | 109 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120002307699 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/15465 |
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| FullText URL | Mem_Fac_Eng_OU_23_1_49.pdf |
| Author | Oka, Hisao| Yamamoto, Tatsuma| Isayama Yoshiharu| |
| Abstract | In the field of dental study it is most fundamental and necessary to estimate the condition of periodontium. In order to examine a mechanical characteristics of periodontium, the theoretical displacement response to periodontal mechanical model (three elements model) are strictly solved in case of some pulse excitations. Impact excitations (rectangular, triangular and half-cycle sine pulse) are given in physical and mathematical definitions and complete solutions to the impact excitations are provided. The triangular pulse excitation which is obtained by means of a fracture of pencil-lead is most suitable. The mechanical parameters of periodontium are given using this input excitation. This is experimentally confirmed by artificial tooth model. The obtained mechanical characteristic of the periodontal tissues can be applied to clinical diagnosis. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 1988-11-22 |
| Volume | volume23 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 49 |
| End Page | 60 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120002307622 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/14060 |
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| FullText URL | Mem_Fac_Eng_OU_42_53.pdf |
| Author | Chai Hong| Totsuji, Hiroo| |
| Abstract | In order to transfer quantum information, the use of spin chains has been proposed and their transfer characteristics have been analyzed. As one of the latter, the maximum of the transfer probability over sufficiently long time period is often considered important and some examples with high maximum values have been given. In these examples, the coupling between neighboring spins are tuned so as to attain high efficiency. In this article, we discuss the effect of noise on the values of coupling constant. As a result, we propose a system where the efficiency is high and also the effect of noise is small. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2008-01 |
| Volume | volume42 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 53 |
| End Page | 55 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120002308635 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/14099 |
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| FullText URL | Mem_Fac_Eng_OU_40_1_23.pdf |
| Author | Kikuchi, Junji| Konishi, Masami| Nishi, Tatsushi| Imai, Jun| |
| Abstract | In steel works, iron ores are stored in ore yard and sent to various plants of down stream accoding to transfer requests. To attain stable operation, it is neccesary to keep a certain allowable stock level in ore tanks of all plants. To this purpose, ore transfer routing method has been developed based on decentralized agent method. In case of disaster such as a big earthquake or a big fire, damages in the facilities of industrial complex may be unavoidable. In this paper, decentralized optimization method is tested to cope with such emergencies. Decentralized agents corresponding to kind of ore make their own transfer route plan exchanging information with others. As the application of the proposed method, transfer scheduling in ore yard in steel works are made in case of destruction of transfer facilities. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2006-01 |
| Volume | volume40 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 23 |
| End Page | 30 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120002308160 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/14062 |
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| FullText URL | Mem_Fac_Eng_OU_42_60.pdf |
| Author | Kikuchi, Junji| Konishi, Masami| Imai, Jun| |
| Abstract | In steel works, molten metals discharged from blast furnace are put into a pan for transportation called torpedo and transported to steel making factory by a locomotive. In molten metals transportation, it becomes issues to prevent temperature drop of molten metals for stable production of down stream plants to shorten transportation time. Therefore it is necessary to make an appropriate plan for molten metals transfer considering the production and the transportation simultaneously. In this paper, molten metals transfer planning method is proposed including production scheduling. That is, torpedo schedule, transfer request assignment and route plan of locomotives are optimized according to each objective. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2008-01 |
| Volume | volume42 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 60 |
| End Page | 70 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120002308612 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/17835 |
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| FullText URL | Mem_Fac_Eng_OU_43_32.pdf |
| Author | Mabuchi, Shuji| Konishi, Masami| Imai, Jun| |
| Abstract | A tractor-trailer vehicle in the factory might move on the route determined beforehand. However, automation of a tractor-trailer vehicle is difficult so that it is necessary to consider the nonlinearity of a vehicle and a trailer. In this research, the effective tracking control method of a tractor-trailer vehicle is proposed. The control method using time-state control form for a preview control is presented, and be applied a tractor-trailer vehicle with nonholonomic characteristics. Results of numerical experiments are presented to check effectiveness of the proposed control method. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2009-01 |
| Volume | volume43 |
| Start Page | 32 |
| End Page | 38 |
| ISSN | 1349-6115 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120002308736 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/15400 |
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| FullText URL | Mem_Fac_Eng_OU_27_2_11.pdf |
| Author | Oka, Hisao| Yamamoto, Tatsuma| Saratani Keiji| Tanaka Masahiro| Kawazoe Takayoshi| |
| Abstract | The use of dental implants has increased together with increases in the human life span and it has become an imperative subject for dentists to familiarize themselves with this treatment modality. Unfortunately, there has been no practical and quantitative method for in vivo evaluation of the stability of dental implants. In the tooth mobility examination, the tactile sense of natural teeth is different from that of dental implants. The authors have developed an automatic diagnosis system of tooth mobility for clinical use. The biomechanical mobility of peri-implantium is measured with a pseudo-random vibration, from which the viscoelasticity c1, c2, k of peri-implantium is obtained. The diagnosis system has been applied to the quantitative evaluation of the stability of implants : endodontics endosseous implants (titanium pin), endosseous implants (Bioceram). It has also been applied to the evaluation of the long-term prognoses of dental implantation (Bioceram) and the examination of Intramobile implant (IMZ), and the satisfactory results have been obtained. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 1993-03-25 |
| Volume | volume27 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 11 |
| End Page | 17 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120002308018 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/15450 |
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| FullText URL | Mem_Fac_Eng_OU_22_35.pdf |
| Author | Totsuji, Hiroo| |
| Abstract | Several methods to derive thermodynamic sum rules for a system including charged particle are proposed and applied to charged mixtures as well as one-component systems. The validity of the statements is examined carefully with respect to the ordering in the powers of the wave number. As for the mixture of electrons and ions, it is shown how the aspect of the one-component plasma or the ionic mixture appears when electrons become strongly degenerate. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 1988-03-31 |
| Volume | volume22 |
| Start Page | 35 |
| End Page | 44 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120002307661 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/15429 |
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| FullText URL | Mem_Fac_Eng_OU_26_2_25.pdf |
| Author | Matsuda, Masaaki| Osaki, Hirokazu| |
| Abstract | The eye movement has been studied widely, because it gives various information about the characteristics of visual work. Almost all of those studies have concentrated on the distribution of the visual points, the direction and width of the saccadic movement and the fixation time of the measures. However there are few measures to evaluate the relationship between the visual objects and eye movement. Recently, the personal computer become portable and this makes it possible to analyze the many data and to show the results graphically on the experimental field. In this study, we propose a series of methods to evaluate how a subject looks at a visual field using the queue theory, and how often man looks at the central part of the visual field using the statistical two-dimensional ellipse. We developed the Pascal program on an personal computer(NEC PC9800). This program has 3 functions. One is the measurement of eye movement, the second is the calculation of the proposed measures and the third is the display of the results of these calculations. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 1992-03-28 |
| Volume | volume26 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 25 |
| End Page | 41 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120002308015 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/15366 |
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| FullText URL | Mem_Fac_Eng_OU_35_147.pdf |
| Author | Yamagiwa, Masashi| Sakai, Hiroshi| |
| Abstract | The Cry4A toxin is a dipteran-specific insecticidal protein produced by Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis as a protoxin of 130 kDa. Its active form is a heterodimer of 20- and 45-kDa fragments which is generated by an interhelical cleavage of a 60-kDa intermediate at the position of Gln236 between α5 and α6 helices in domain I. On the other hand, Cry1Aa, which is also produced as a 130-kDa protoxin but toxic to lepidopteran larvae, was processed into the active 60-kDa fragment with no additional cleavage. To investigate the role of the intramolecular cleavage of Cry4A for its insecticidal activity, the loop between α5 and α6 of Cry4A which includes the cleavage site was substituted for the corresponding region of Cry1Aa. The resulting mutant designated GST-60Loop was expressed as a GST-fusion protein. A difference of the processing profile was observed between GST-60 and GST-60Loop in the in vitro digestion assay by trypsin, and the insecticidal activity of GST-60Loop was two-fold lower than that of GST-60. These results suggested that the interhelical cleavage of Cry4A promoted the toxicity against C. pipiens larvae. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2001-03-27 |
| Volume | volume35 |
| Issue | issue1-2 |
| Start Page | 147 |
| End Page | 154 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120002307324 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46981 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_37_2_067_072.pdf |
| Author | Yamagiwa, Masashi| Sakai, Hiroshi| |
| Abstract | An active form of Cry4A is a heterodimer of the 20- and 45-kDa fragments that are derived from the 130-kDa Cry4A protoxin. To investigate the function of these two fragments, several deletion mutants were constructed and expressed in E.coli as the GST (glutathione-S-transferase) fusion proteins. The results of the bioassay against Culex pipiens larvae showed that the interaction of two fragments of Cry4A was necessary for the toxicity, and that the C-terminal 67 amino acids of the 20-kDa fragment corresponding to the helices α4 and α5 were involved in determining the insecticidal activity. Surprisingly the lack of helix α5 did not affect the toxicity to C. pipiens, suggesting that the role of helix α5 of Cry4A was different from that postulated in the case of Cry4A toxins. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2003-03 |
| Volume | volume37 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 67 |
| End Page | 72 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80016019143 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46956 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_38_1-2_097_100.pdf |
| Author | Yamagiwa, Masashi| Hirao, Taichi| Kiyomi, Masaaki| Akao, Tetsuyuki| Mizuki, Eiichi| Ohba, Michio| Sakai, Hiroshi| |
| Abstract | Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. coreanensis A2316 is a newly isolated strain from Yonakunijima Island in Japan. It produces the proteinaceous inclusion body (crystal) which has no insecticidal and hemolytic activities. When the crystal proteins were digested by proteinase K, they exhibited the strong cytotoxicity against human leukemic T cell, MOLT-4. The proteinase K-digested A2316 crystal proteins have little damage upon the cell membrane of MOLT-4, suggesting that the cell death of MOLT-4 was induced through a mechanism other than the colloid-osmotic swelling and cell lysis as caused by hitherto known B. thuringiensis crystal proteins. The 29-kDa polypeptide proved to be an active component of the proteinase K-digested A2316 crystal proteins. EC(50) of the purified 29-kDa polypeptide was 0.0579 μg/ml. The N-terminal amino acid sequence of the 29-kDa polypeptide was identical with that of p29 produced by B. thuringiensis A1519 strain and shared no significant homology with all the known proteins, suggesting that this polypeptide belong to a new family of B. thuringiensis crystal proteins. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2004-03 |
| Volume | volume38 |
| Issue | issue1-2 |
| Start Page | 97 |
| End Page | 100 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80017001823 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/15423 |
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| FullText URL | Mem_Fac_Eng_OU_26_1_95.pdf |
| Author | Kawakami, Hiroshi| Konishi, Tadataka| |
| Abstract | This paper describes a method to construct IDEA BANK automatically. IDEA BANK is the data base of the "function-structure module" which is utilized in systematic conceptual design from Value Engineering perspectives. The method based on the Machine Learning EBL technique was evaluated and implemented for the IDEA BANK using SUN workstation. The practical implementation of the IDEA BANK acquisition was discussed after elucidating the problem and solution of the EBL technique in engineering design. In the IDEA BANK system, the structural features of an existing article are analyzed by hierarchically organized domain specific knowledge to yield a systematic explanation of how they function and attain their design goals. The explanation resulted in a generalized version of the Functional Diagram used in Value Engineering from which "function-structure module" can be extracted systematically. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 1991-11-30 |
| Volume | volume26 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 95 |
| End Page | 108 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120002307756 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/15455 |
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| FullText URL | Mem_Fac_Eng_OU_23_1_1.pdf |
| Author | Matsuda, Masaaki| Osaki, Hirokazu| |
| Abstract | Display equipment has been used as communication media in the factory, office, and home. In order to communicate effectively, it is necessary to clarify the characteristics of eye movement in the case of looking at the display. The development of Eye Camera enables us to measure eye movement during work, so that we can collect the many data of eye movement during work. In this study, we proposed a method to evaluate the visual work using the distribution of visual points in X and Y axis. The cumulative distribution is approximated by the logistic curve which shows the symmetry and kurtosis by the parameter. The proposed method was applied to the three typical display models, that is, the digital meter model, reading model, and game model. In the digital meter model, the visual points were distributed symmetrically along the meters, and the symmetry and kurtosis of the distribution varied by the arranged direction of the meter. In the reading model, the visual points were distributed nearly symmetrically and uniformly in each axis and they were moved around the character and line from the period of spectrum analysis. In the game model, the visual points moved according to the target and were distributed symmetrically in the Y axis. And whether the target moved vertically or horizontally, the kurtosis of the distribution became equal in each axis. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 1988-11-22 |
| Volume | volume23 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 1 |
| End Page | 12 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120002307354 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/15496 |
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| FullText URL | Mem_Fac_Eng_OU_25_1_89.pdf |
| Author | Abe, Hirofumi| Oishi Manabu| |
| Abstract | Multidimensional scaling (MDS) has been used in a wide variety of research fields; psychology, political science, anthropology, marketing research, urban and regional planning, and so on. In practical terms, MDS is a statistical method to make a picture of the information in the data. It enables us to examine the "hidden structure" of a set of data. When the set of data is large, MDS is extremely useful, since it is easier and more informative to look at a picture than the data themselves. In this paper, MDS is applied to the interregional migration data of Japanese regions for the years 1960-85. Findings show that the two-dimensional configuration of regions estimated by MDS generally corresponds with the geographical locations of regions, and the structure of interregional migration was very stable over the study years 1960-85. It is also suggested that MDS is a useful tool to identify the relationships between regions using the spatial interaction data. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 1990-12-14 |
| Volume | volume25 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 89 |
| End Page | 98 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120002307404 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/19615 |
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| FullText URL | Mem_Fac_Eng_OU_33_1_47.pdf |
| Author | Jindai, Mitsuru| Osaki, Hirokazu| Kajihara, Yasuhiro| Munesawa, Yosiomi| |
| Abstract | In this paper, we propose the recognition methods by image processing using 2D or 3D CAD. In the case of 2D CAD, an object is recognized by comparing five characters calculated from the center of gravity and contour. In the case of 3D CAD, there are two recognition methods. Firstly 3D CAD figure is transformed into 2D CAD figures. And an object is recognized by comparing 2D CAD figures with inputted images. Secondly the three dimensional coordinates of vertexes on an object are calculated from the images taken from some cameras and compared 3D coordinates with those of 3D CAD figures and recognized the sort of an object. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 1998-11-30 |
| Volume | volume33 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 47 |
| End Page | 52 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120002309202 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/14126 |
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| FullText URL | Mem_Fac_Eng_OU_40_1_84.pdf |
| Author | Nogami, Yasuyuki| Morikawa, Yoshitaka| |
| Abstract | This paper particularly deals with elliptic curves in the form of E(x, y) = y(2) − x(3) −b = 0, b ∈ F(* q) , where 3 divides q−1. In this paper, we refer to the well-known twist technique as x-twist and propose y-twist. By combining x-twist and y-twist, we can consider six elliptic curves and this paper proposes a method to obtain the orders of these six curves by counting only one order among the six curves. |
| Keywords | elliptic curve twist third power residue/non-residue |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2006-01 |
| Volume | volume40 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 83 |
| End Page | 94 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120002308548 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/14079 |
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| FullText URL | Mem_Fac_Eng_OU_41_1_1.pdf |
| Author | Nogami, Yasuyuki| Morikawa, Yoshitaka| |
| Abstract | In this paper, we first show the number of x's such that x(2) +u, u ∈ F(*)(p) , becomes a quadratic residue in F(p), and then this number is proven to be equal to (p+1)/2 if −u is a quadratic residue in Fp, which is a necessary fact for the following. With respect to the irreducible cubic polynomials over Fp in the form of x(3)+ax+b, we give a classification based on the trace of an element in F(p3) and based on whether or not the coefficient of x, i.e. the parameter a, is a quadratic residue in Fp. According to this classification, we can know the minimal set of the irreducible cubic polynomials, from which all the irreducible cubic polynomials can be generated by using the following two variable transformations: x=x + i, x=j−1x, i, j ∈ Fp, j ≠ 0. Based on the classification and that necessary fact, we show the number of the irreducible cubic polynomials in the form of x(3)+ax+b, b ∈ F(p), where a is a certain fixed element in F(p). |
| Keywords | Irreducible cubic polynomial trace quadratic residue |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2007-01 |
| Volume | volume41 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 1 |
| End Page | 10 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120002308562 |
