A note on Galois groups of linearized polynomials

Let L(X) be a monic q -linearized polynomial over Fq of degree qn, where n is an odd prime. In [2], Gow and McGuire showed that the Galois group of L(X)/X -t over the field of rational functions Fq(t) is GLn(q) unless L(X) = Xqn. The case of even q remained open, but it was conjectured that the result holds too and partial results were given. In this note we settle this conjecture. In fact we use Hensel's Lemma to give a unified proof for all prime powers q. (c) 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http:// creativecommons .org /licenses /by /4 .0/).