Permutational behavior of reversed Dickson polynomials over finite fields

Abstract

In this paper, we use the method developed previously by Hong, Qin and Zhao to obtain several results on the permutational behavior of the reversed Dickson polynomial $D_{n,k}(1,x)$ of the $(k+1)$-th kind over the finite field ${\mathbb F}_{q}$. Particularly, we present the explicit evaluation of the first moment $\sum_{a\in {\mathbb F}_{q}}D_{n,k}(1,a)$. Our results extend the known results from the case $0\le k\le 3$ to the general $k\ge 0$ case.