Theorem. The two sets,
And
Since the ring of polynomials is a UFD, we can factor each factor into where
Proof.
A column reduction by Gaussian elimination using mod p arithmetic will reduce Q-I to column-echelon form.
By the a theorem of linear algebra,
The nullity of the left nullspace = n.
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