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Improvements upon the Chevalley–Warning–Ax–Katz-type estimates

✍ Scribed by Wei Cao; Qi Sun


Book ID
104024724
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
118 KB
Volume
122
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-314X

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✦ Synopsis


Let f be a polynomial over finite field F q with q elements and let N(f = 0) denote the number of zeros of f in F q . The q-divisibility properties of N(f = 0) have been studied by many authors, such as Chavelley, Warning, Ax, Katz, etc. In this paper, by reducing the degree of a given polynomial meanwhile remaining the number of its zeros unchanged, we present an improvement upon the Chevalley-Warning-Ax-Katz-type estimates in many cases. Furthermore, our result can improve Cao-Sun's reduction recently obtained on counting the number of zeros of general diagonal equations over finite fields.