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May  2016, 10(2): 355-365. doi: 10.3934/amc.2016010

Bounds on the number of rational points of algebraic hypersurfaces over finite fields, with applications to projective Reed-Muller codes

Daniele Bartoli 1, , Adnen Sboui 2, and  Leo Storme 3,

1. 

Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via Vanvitelli 1, 06123 Perugia
2. 

Institut Préparatoire aux Études d'Ingénieurs d'El-Manar, Université Tunis El Manar, Campus universitaire El Manar, B.P.244 El Manar II - 2092 Tunis, Tunisia
3. 

Department of Mathematics, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 - S22, 9000 Ghent

Received  July 2014 Revised  June 2015 Published  April 2016

We present bounds on the number of points in algebraic curves and algebraic hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{P}^n(\mathbb{F}_q)$ of small degree $d$, depending on the number of linear components contained in such curves and hypersurfaces. The obtained results have applications to the weight distribution of the projective Reed-Muller codes PRM$(q,d,n)$ over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$.
Keywords: small weight codewords, quadrics, Algebraic varieties, intersections, projective Reed-Muller codes..
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 51E20, 94B05; Secondary: 05B2.
Citation: Daniele Bartoli, Adnen Sboui, Leo Storme. Bounds on the number of rational points of algebraic hypersurfaces over finite fields, with applications to projective Reed-Muller codes. Advances in Mathematics of Communications, 2016, 10 (2) : 355-365. doi: 10.3934/amc.2016010
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[1]

A. Couvreur, An upper bound on the number of rational points of arbitrary projective varieties over finite fields,, preprint, ().   Google Scholar

[2]

S. R. Ghorpade and G. Lachaud, Étale cohomology, Lefschetz theorems and number of points of singular varieties over finite fields,, Moscow Math. J., 2 (2002), 589.   Google Scholar

[3]

G. Lachaud, The parameters of projective Reed-Muller codes,, Discrete Math., 81 (1990), 217.  doi: 10.1016/0012-365X(90)90155-B.  Google Scholar

[4]

G. Lachaud and R. Rolland, An overview of the number of points of algebraic sets over finite fields}},, preprint, ().  doi: 10.1016/j.jpaa.2015.05.008.  Google Scholar

[5]

S. Lang and A. Weil, Number of points of varieties in finite fields,, Amer. J. Math., 76 (1954), 819.   Google Scholar

[6]

F. Rodier and A. Sboui, Les Arrangements Minimaux et Maximaux d'Hyperplans dans $\mathbb P^n(\mathbb F_q)$,, C. R. Acad. Sc. Paris Ser. I, 344 (2007), 287.  doi: 10.1016/j.crma.2007.01.006.  Google Scholar

[7]

F. Rodier and A. Sboui, Highest numbers of points of hypersurfaces and generalized Reed-Muller codes,, Finite Fields Appl., 14 (2008), 816.  doi: 10.1016/j.ffa.2008.02.001.  Google Scholar

[8]

A. Sboui, Second highest number of points of hypersurfaces in $\mathbb F_q^n$,, Finite Fields Appl., 13 (2007), 444.  doi: 10.1016/j.ffa.2005.11.002.  Google Scholar

[9]

A. Sboui, Special numbers of rational points on hypersurfaces in the $n$-dimensional projective space over a finite field,, Discrete Math., 309 (2009), 5048.  doi: 10.1016/j.disc.2009.03.021.  Google Scholar

[10]

J.-P. Serre, Lettre à M. Tsfasman du 24 Juillet 1989, in Journées Arithmétiques de Luminy 17-21 Juillet 1989,, Astérisque, 198 (1991), 351.   Google Scholar

[11]

A. B. Sørensen, Projective Reed-Muller codes,, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 37 (1991), 1567.  doi: 10.1109/18.104317.  Google Scholar

[12]

A. B. Sørensen, On the number of rational points on codimension-1 algebraic sets in $\mathbb P^n(\mathbb F_q)$,, Discrete Math., 135 (1994), 321.  doi: 10.1016/0012-365X(93)E0009-S.  Google Scholar

[13]

L. Storme and J. A. Thas, MDS codes and arcs in $PG(n, q)$ with $q$ even: An improvement of the bounds of Bruen, Thas and Blokhuis,, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A, 62 (1993), 139.  doi: 10.1016/0097-3165(93)90076-K.  Google Scholar

[14]

L. Storme and H. Van Maldeghem, Cyclic arcs in PG$(2,q)$,, J. Algebraic Combin., 3 (1994), 113.  doi: 10.1023/A:1022454221497.  Google Scholar

[15]

L. Storme and H. Van Maldeghem, Arcs fixed by a large cyclic group,, Atti Sem. Mat. Fis. Univ. Modena, XLIII (1995), 273.   Google Scholar

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