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Polynomial Equations in Subgroups and Applications

Number Theory 2020-05-13 v1

Abstract

We obtain a new bound for the number of solutions to polynomial equations in cosets of multiplicative subgroups in finite fields, which generalises previous results of P. Corvaja and U. Zannier (2013). We also obtain a conditional improvement of recent results of J. Bourgain, A. Gamburd and P. Sarnak (2016) and S. V. Konyagin, S. V. Makarychev, I. E. Shparlinski and I. V. Vyugin (2019) on the structure of solutions to the reduction of the Markoff equation x2+y2+z2=3xyzx^2 + y^2 + z^2 = 3 x yz modulo a prime pp.

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@article{arxiv.2005.05315,
  title  = {Polynomial Equations in Subgroups and Applications},
  author = {Sergei V. Konyagin and Igor E. Shparlinski and Ilya V. Vyugin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.05315},
  year   = {2020}
}

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arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1711.05335

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