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Pairs of Bilinear Equations in a Finite Field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

A. Duane Porter
A. Duane Porter*
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University of Wyoming
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Let F = GF(g) be the finite field of q = pr elements, p arbitrary. We wish to consider the system of bilinear equations

1.1

where all coefficients are from F. The number of solutions in F of a single bilinear equation may be obtained from a theorem of John H. Hodges (3, Theorem 3) by properly defining the matrices U, V, A, B. In 1954, L. Carlitz (1) obtained, as a special case of his work on quadratic forms, the number of simultaneous solutions in F of (1.1) when all aj = 1 and p is odd. Carlitz considered the case p = 2 separately.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 18 , 1966 , pp. 561 - 565
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1966

References

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