English

Elementary analysis of isolated zeroes of a polynomial system

Number Theory 2021-02-02 v1

Abstract

Wooley ({\em J. Number Theory}, 1996) gave an elementary proof of a Bezout like theorem allowing one to count the number of isolated integer roots of a system of polynomial equations modulo some prime power. In this article, we adapt the proof to a slightly different setting. Specifically, we consider polynomials with coefficients from a polynomial ring F[t]\mathbb{F}[t] for an arbitrary field F\mathbb{F} and give an upper bound on the number of isolated roots modulo tst^s for an arbitrary positive integer ss. In particular, using s=1s=1, we can bound the number of isolated roots of a system of polynomials over an arbitrary field F\mathbb{F}.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2102.00602,
  title  = {Elementary analysis of isolated zeroes of a polynomial system},
  author = {Mitali Bafna and Madhu Sudan and Santhoshini Velusamy and David Xiang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.00602},
  year   = {2021}
}