Incomplete Datta-Ghorpade conjecture for maximum projective point counts

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Let er(d,m)e_r(d,m) denote the maximal number of Fq\mathbb{F}_q-rational points of a projective algebraic set defined by rr linearly independent homogeneous degree-dd polynomials in m+1m+1 variables. Let Hr(d,m)H_r(d,m) be the affine point-counting quantity defined from the lexicographically ordered exponent vectors in Ω(d,m)\Omega(d,m). Let πk=Pk(Fq)\pi_k=|\mathbb{P}^k(\mathbb{F}_q)|. Incomplete Datta-Ghorpade conjecture. Given m,d1m,d\geq 1, 1r(m+d1d1)1\leq r\leq\binom{m+d-1}{d-1}, and qd+1q\geq d+1, one has

er(d,m)=Hr(d1,m)+πm1.e_r(d,m)=H_r(d-1,m)+\pi_{m-1}.

This conjecture was proposed after the Boguslavsky-Tsfasman conjecture was disproved in part of its stated range. The source reports proofs for d=1d=1, for m=1m=1, and for additional bounded ranges of rr, while presenting the conjecture as superseded by a complete extension covering all rr; its resolution status is therefore not established by the supplied text.

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Deepesh Singhal and Yuxin Lin, “On a conjecture of Beelen, Datta and Ghorpade for the number of points of varieties over finite fields”, arXiv:2311.07702 (2025).

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