Improved explicit estimates on the number of solutions of equations over a finite field

  • Authors:
  • Antonio Cafure;Guillermo Matera

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Matemática, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellón I (1428), Buenos Aires, Argentina and Instituto de Desar ...;Instituto de Desarrollo Humano, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, J.M. Gutiérrez 1150 (1613), Los Polvorines, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient ...

  • Venue:
  • Finite Fields and Their Applications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We show explicit estimates on the number of q-ratinoal points of an F"q-definable affine absolutely irreducible variety of F@?"q^n. Our estimates for a hypersurface significantly improve previous estimates of W. Schmidt and M.-D. Huang and Y.-C. Wong, while in the case of a variety our estimates improve those of S. Ghorpade and G. Lachaud in several important cases. Our proofs rely on elementary methods of effective elimination theory and suitable effective versions of the first Bertini theorem.