A multi-linear geometric estimate

Publication date 1 December 2021

General ternary and quaternary quadratic forms; forms of more than two variables (11E20)

Abstract: We give a generalization of the geometric estimate used by Hart and the second author in their 2008 work on sums and products in finite fields. Their result concerned level sets of non-degenerate bilinear forms over finite fields, while in this work we prove that if

E s u b s e t m a t h b b F_{q}^{d}

is sufficiently large and

v a r p i

is a non-degenerate multi-linear form then

v a r p i

will attain all possible nonzero values as its arguments vary over

E

, under a certain quantitative assumption on the extent to which

E

is projective. We show that our bound is nontrivial in the case that

n = 3

and

d = 2

and construct examples of sets to which this applies. In particular, we give conditions under which every member of

m a t h b b F_{q}^{*}

belongs to

A c d o t A c d o t A + A c d o t A c d o t A c d o t A c d o t A c d o t A

where

A

is a union of cosets of a subgroup of

m a t h b b F_{q}^{*}

.

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