The number of solutions of an equation related to a product of multilinear polynomials

T. Narayaninsamy, D. -J. Mercier, J. -P. Cherdieu

We look at the number of solutions of an equation of the form f_1*f_2*...*f_k=a in a finite field, where each f_i is a multilinear polynomial. We use two methods to construct a sol…