Frobenius endomorphism

In commutative algebra and field theory, the Frobenius endomorphism (after Ferdinand Georg Frobenius) is a special endomorphism of commutative rings with prime characteristic $p$ , an important class that includes finite fields. The endomorphism maps every element to its $p$ -th power. In certain contexts it is an automorphism, but this is not true in general.

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