Punctured combinatorial Nullstellensätze

In this article we present a punctured version of Alon's Nullstellensatz which states that if $f$ vanishes at nearly all, but not all, of the common zeros of some polynomials $g_1(X_1),\ldots,g_n(X_n)$ then every $I$-residue of $f$, where the ideal $I=\langle g_1,\ldots,g_n\rangle$, has a large...

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Authors: Ball, Simeon Michael|||0000-0003-4845-2084, Serra Albó, Oriol|||0000-0001-8561-4631
Format: article
Publication Date:2007
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repository:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/1404
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/1404
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Combinatorial analysis
Nullstellensatz
Polinomial
Anàlisi combinatòria
Classificació AMS::05 Combinatorics
Classificació AMS::51 Geometry
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Summary:In this article we present a punctured version of Alon's Nullstellensatz which states that if $f$ vanishes at nearly all, but not all, of the common zeros of some polynomials $g_1(X_1),\ldots,g_n(X_n)$ then every $I$-residue of $f$, where the ideal $I=\langle g_1,\ldots,g_n\rangle$, has a large degree. Furthermore, we extend Alon's Nullstellensatz to functions which have multiple zeros at the common zeros of $g_1,g_2,\ldots,g_n$ and prove a punctured version of this generalised version. Some applications of these punctured Nullstellens\"atze to projective and affine geometries over an arbitrary field are considered which, in the case that the field is finite, will lead to some bounds related to linear codes containing the all one vector.