Quadratic forms on F_ q[T]

DOI10.1006/JNTH.1996.0142MaRDI QIDQ678405zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mireille Car

Publication date 17 April 1997

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jnth.1996.0142

zbMATH Keywords

circle methodKloosterman's methodnumber of representations of a polynomial by diagonal quadratic forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Additive number theory; partitions (11P99) Polynomials over finite fields (11T06) Arithmetic theory of polynomial rings over finite fields (11T55)

Review text

Let \(q\) be a power of an odd prime number and \(\mathbb{F}_q\) denote the finite field with \(q\) elements. In this paper the author studies the number of representations of certain polynomials \(M\in\mathbb{F}_q[T]\) by diagonal quadratic forms. That is, \[ M=A_1M_1^2+\cdots+ A_sM_s^2,\tag{1} \] where \(A_1,\dots,A_s\) are fixed polynomials and \(M_1,\dots,M_s\) are any polynomials satisfying \[ \deg M_j\leq m_j \quad\text{if}\quad \deg M-\deg A_j\in\{2m_j;2m_j-1\},\tag{2} \] for \(j=1,\dots,s\). By the circle method, the author proves that for \(s\geq 5\), if \(A_1,\dots, A_s\) are pairwise coprime and \(\deg M\) is large enough such that the conditions in (2) are satisfied, then the number of representations in (1) is \[ \gg q^{(s-1)(\deg M)/2}, \] where the implied constant in the \(\gg\) depends on \(q\) and \(A_1,\dots, A_s\) only. If \(s\) is fixed to be 4, then by Kloosterman's method the author proves that the number of representations is \[ \gg q^{\deg M}(\log(\deg M))^{-1}. \] Some particular cases are also discussed in the paper.

Recommendations

• Quadratic forms on \(\mathbb{F}_{2^ h} [T]\)
• Quadratic forms on \(\mathbb F_q[T]\)
• Quadratic forms with polynomial coefficients
• Formes cubiques sur F_2^h[T]
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3842011

Cited in

(19)

• Von Staudt for \(\mathbb F_q[T]\)
• The number of pairs of quadratic forms over \(\mathbb{F}_q\) (\(q\) odd)
• Theta series of quaternion algebras over function fields.
• Explicit equivalence of quadratic forms over \(\mathbb{F}_q(t)\)
• On the indecomposable quadratic forms of the image of the homomorphism \(W(F) \to W(F(\varphi))\)
• Quadratic forms on \(\mathbb{F}_{2^ h} [T]\)
• Representations of forms by forms in a finite field
• Automorphic forms and sums of squares over function fields.
• Variation of a theme of Landau-Shanks in positive characteristic
• Representations of definite binary quadratic forms over \(\mathbb F_q[t]\)
• Optimal strong approximation for quadrics over \(\mathbb{F}_q [t]\)
• Distribution of completely Q-additive functions along squares of polynomials over a finite field
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3842011 (Why is no real title available?)
• On quadratic forms over the ring \(\mathbb F_{2^h}[T]\)
• Formes cubiques sur F_2^h[T]
• The number of quadratic form representations in finite fields
• Definite regular quadratic forms over 𝔽_{𝕢}[𝕋]
• Sums of two squares over \(\mathbb{F}_q [T]\)
• Quadratic forms on \(\mathbb F_q[T]\)

This page was built for publication: Quadratic forms on \(\mathbb{F}_ q[T]\)

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q678405)