Alon's nullstellensatz for multisets (Q377804)

The authors generalize the combinatorial nullstellensatz of \textit{N. Alon} [Comb. Probab. Comput. 8, No. 1--2, 7--29 (1999; Zbl 0920.05026)] to multisets. First, they prove the multiset versions of the two basic theorems by Alon. Then they apply these theorems to extend three problems mentioned in Alon's paper to multisets: the hypercube covering, the Cauchy-Davenport theorem, and the Eliahou-Kervaire theorem on sums of subsets of vector spaces. Moreover, they extend Sun's result on the value-set of polynomials.