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On the two-parameter Erd\H{o}s-Falconer distance problem over finite fields

Combinatorics 2021-01-27 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

Given EFqd×FqdE \subseteq \mathbb{F}_q^d \times \mathbb{F}_q^d, with the finite field Fq\mathbb{F}_q of order qq and the integer d2d \ge 2, we define the two-parameter distance set as Δd,d(E)={(x1y1,x2y2):(x1,x2),(y1,y2)E}\Delta_{d, d}(E)=\left\{\left(\|x_1-y_1\|, \|x_2-y_2\|\right) : (x_1,x_2), (y_1,y_2) \in E \right\}. Birklbauer and Iosevich (2017) proved that if Eq3d+12|E| \gg q^{\frac{3d+1}{2}}, then Δd,d(E)=q2 |\Delta_{d, d}(E)| = q^2. For the case of d=2d=2, they showed that if Eq103|E| \gg q^{\frac{10}{3}}, then Δ2,2(E)q2 |\Delta_{2, 2}(E)| \gg q^2. In this paper, we present extensions and improvements of these results.

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@article{arxiv.2101.10959,
  title  = {On the two-parameter Erd\H{o}s-Falconer distance problem over finite fields},
  author = {Clément Francois and Hossein Nassajian Mojarrad and Duc Hiep Pham and Chun-Yen Shen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.10959},
  year   = {2021}
}
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