Lattices in function fields and applications (Q7028812)

Minkowski's Geometry of Numbers from 1910 can often be used to bound the number of solutions to modular congruences with variables from short intervals. Later in 1941, Mahler introduced an analogue to the Geometry of Numbers in function fields over finite fields. The authors build on Mahler's ideas and develop results in \(\mathbb{F}_q((1/T))^d\), i.e., the \(d\)-dimensional vector space over the field of Laurent series in \(1/T\), which are used to bound the sizes of intersections of lattices and convex bodies. These results are then applied to various problems regarding bounding the number of solutions to congruences in \(\mathbb{F}_q[T]\), such as the number of points on polynomial curves in low-dimensional subspaces of finite fields. This comprehensive paper improves a series of previous bounds and succeeds to present various techniques in a unified manner.