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Vanishing ideals of projective spaces over finite fields and a projective footprint bound

Algebraic Geometry 2018-07-18 v2

Abstract

We consider the vanishing ideal of a projective space over a finite field. An explicit set of generators for this ideal has been given by Mercier and Rolland. We show that these generators form a universal Gr\"obner basis of the ideal. Further we give a projective analogue of the footprint bound, and a version of it that is suitable for estimating the number of points of a projective algebraic variety over a finite field. An application to Serre's inequality for the number of rational points of projective hypersurfaces over finite fields is included

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@article{arxiv.1801.09139,
  title  = {Vanishing ideals of projective spaces over finite fields and a projective footprint bound},
  author = {Peter Beelen and Mrinmoy Datta and Sudhir R. Ghorpade},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.09139},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

16 pages, slightly revised version, to appear in Acta Math. Sin. (Engl. Ser.)