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On the number of solutions of two-variable diagonal quartic equations over finite fields

  • Received: 16 November 2019 Accepted: 16 March 2020 Published: 20 March 2020
  • MSC : 11T23, 11T24

  • Let $p$ be a odd prime number and let $\mathbb{F}_q$ be the finite field of characteristic $p$ with $q$ elements. In this paper, by using the Gauss sum and Jacobi sum, we give an explicit formula for the number $N(x_1^4+x_2^4 = c)$ of solutions of the following two-variable diagonal quartic equations over $\mathbb{F}_q$: $x_1^4+x_2^4 = c$ with $c\in\mathbb{F}_q^*$. From this result, one can deduce that $N(x_1^4+x_2^4 = c) = q+O(q^{\frac{1}{2}}).$

    Citation: Junyong Zhao, Yang Zhao, Yujun Niu. On the number of solutions of two-variable diagonal quartic equations over finite fields[J]. AIMS Mathematics, 2020, 5(4): 2979-2991. doi: 10.3934/math.2020192

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  • Let $p$ be a odd prime number and let $\mathbb{F}_q$ be the finite field of characteristic $p$ with $q$ elements. In this paper, by using the Gauss sum and Jacobi sum, we give an explicit formula for the number $N(x_1^4+x_2^4 = c)$ of solutions of the following two-variable diagonal quartic equations over $\mathbb{F}_q$: $x_1^4+x_2^4 = c$ with $c\in\mathbb{F}_q^*$. From this result, one can deduce that $N(x_1^4+x_2^4 = c) = q+O(q^{\frac{1}{2}}).$


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