Timeline for Fermat's Little Theorem in function fields
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| Feb 23, 2016 at 7:04 | comment | added | KConrad | Yes, such a formula holds. Take a proof of the classical identity in $\mathbf Z$ and try to carry it over. Did you attempt to do that? If not, you should. By the way, in the formula you ask about you should write that $d$ runs over monic factors of $f$. | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 0:17 | comment | added | Lev Borisov | Well, if $f$ is irreducible, then you have the usual proof of Fermat's Little Theorem apply to the image of $a$ in $F[x]/<f>$, so it should be OK. | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 0:09 | history | asked | user76513 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |