ON THE SOLVABILITY OF BILINEAR EQUATIONS IN FINITE FIELDS

Abstract

AbstractWe consider the equation over a finite field q of q elements, with variables from arbitrary sets $\cA,\cB, \cC, \cD \subseteq \F_q$. The question of solvability of such and more general equations has recently been considered by Hart and Iosevich, who, in particular, prove that if for some absolute constant C > 0, then above equation has a solution for any λ ∈ q*. Here we show that using bounds of multiplicative character sums allows us to extend the class of sets which satisfy this property.