为了后面要讨论的Finite Projective Plane的构造算法中用到的Finite Prime Field,我们需要做一些抽象代数的回归。完整的抽象代数教材和课程固然好,但不适合突击。我找到了一份不错的小件一点儿的资料Introduction to finite fields (是Stanford CS250/EE387的补充阅读)。基于这份资料,我们列出所有需要弄清楚的问题,然后一一整理明白。
Paper: Janson, Svante, Jérémie Lumbroso, and Robert Sedgewick. “Bit-Array-Based Alternatives to HyperLogLog.” 35th International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2024). Schloss Dagstuhl–Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2024.
Let’s all agree as soon as possible to use the easily understood term undirected components, or (as suggested by Doug West) underlying components, for what many people have unfortunately been calling weak components, and to celebrate the properties of directed graphs whose weak components are defined in a truly useful way.