On a bound of Garcia and Voloch for the number of points of a Fermat curve over a prime field

DOI10.1016/J.FFA.2006.03.005MaRDI QIDQ2467312zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sandro Mattarei

Publication date 21 January 2008

Published in Finite Fields and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511339

zbMATH Keywords

Fermat curvebound for the number of pointscurve over finite fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves over finite and local fields (11G20) Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G15)

Abstract: In 1988 Garcia and Voloch proved the upper bound 4n^{4/3}(p-1)^{2/3} for the number of solutions over a prime finite field F_p of the Fermat equation x^n+y^n=a, where a in F_p^* and n ge 2 is a divisor of p-1 such that (n-1/2)^4 ge p-1. This is better than Weil's bound p+1+(n-1)(n-2)p^{1/2} in the stated range. By refining Garcia and Voloch's proof we show that the constant 4 in their bound can be replaced by 3cdot 2^{-2/3}.

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