ON SOLUTIONS TO SOME POLYNOMIAL CONGRUENCES IN SMALL BOXES

Abstract

AbstractWe 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.