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A 1993 result of Alon and Furedi gives a sharp upper bound on the number of zeros of a multivariate polynomial over an integral domain in a finite grid, in terms of the degree of the polynomial. This result was recently generalized to polynomials over an arbitrary commutative ring, assuming a certain Condition (D) on the grid which holds vacuously when the ring is a domain. In the first half of this paper we give a further Generalized Alon-Furedi Theorem which provides a sharp upper bound when the degrees of the polynomial in each variable are also taken into account. This yields in particular a new proof of Alon-Furedi. We then discuss the relationship between Alon-Furedi and results of DeMillo-Lipton, Schwartz and Zippel. A direct coding theoretic interpretation of Alon-Furedi Theorem and its generalization in terms of Reed--Muller type affine variety codes is shown which gives us the minimum Hamming distance of these codes. Then we apply the Alon-Furedi Theorem to quickly recover (and sometimes strengthen) old and new results in finite geometry, including the Jamison/Brouwer-Schrijver bound on affine blocking sets. We end with a discussion of multiplicity enhancements.
Robertson and Seymour proved that every graph with sufficiently large treewidth contains a large grid minor. However, the best known bound on the treewidth that forces an $elltimesell$ grid minor is exponential in $ell$. It is unknown whether polynom
Let $A$ be an algebra and let $f(x_1,...,x_d)$ be a multilinear polynomial in noncommuting indeterminates $x_i$. We consider the problem of describing linear maps $phi:Ato A$ that preserve zeros of $f$. Under certain technical restrictions we solve t
In his 2006 paper, Jin proves that Kalantaris bounds on polynomial zeros, indexed by $m leq 2$ and called $L_m$ and $U_m$ respectively, become sharp as $mrightarrowinfty$. That is, given a degree $n$ polynomial $p(z)$ not vanishing at the origin and
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Let $G$ be a graph with $n$ vertices, and let $A(G)$ and $D(G)$ denote respectively the adjacency matrix and the degree matrix of $G$. Define $$ A_{alpha}(G)=alpha D(G)+(1-alpha)A(G) $$ for any real $alphain [0,1]$. The $A_{alpha}$-characteristic pol