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ON SOLUTIONS TO SOME POLYNOMIAL CONGRUENCES IN SMALL BOXES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2013

IGOR E. SHPARLINSKI*
Affiliation:
Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia email igor.shparlinski@mq.edu.au
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Abstract

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We use bounds of mixed character sum to study the distribution of solutions to certain polynomial systems of congruences modulo a prime $p$. In particular, we obtain nontrivial results about the number of solutions in boxes with the side length below ${p}^{1/ 2} $, which seems to be the limit of more general methods based on the bounds of exponential sums along varieties.

Type
Research Article
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Copyright ©2013 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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