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

DOI10.1016/J.FFA.2006.03.005zbMATH Open1137.11045arXivmath/0511339OpenAlexW2011293834MaRDI QIDQ2467312FDOQ2467312

Sandro Mattarei

Publication date: 21 January 2008

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

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}.

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

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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)

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