The Pintz–Steiger–Szemerédi estimate for intersective quadratic polynomials in function fields

Abstract

Let [Formula: see text] be the polynomial ring over the finite field [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] elements. For a natural number [Formula: see text] let [Formula: see text] be the set of all polynomials in [Formula: see text] of degree less than [Formula: see text] Let [Formula: see text] be a quadratic polynomial over [Formula: see text] Suppose that [Formula: see text] is intersective, that is, which satisfies [Formula: see text] for any [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] denotes the difference set of [Formula: see text] Let [Formula: see text] Suppose that [Formula: see text] and that the characteristic of [Formula: see text] is not divisible by 2. It is proved that [Formula: see text] for any [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] is a constant depending only on [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]