Irreducible Polynomials with Coefficients in an Affine Algebraic Set

Abstract

In this paper, we give error bounds on the number of monic irreducible polynomials $a_0+a_1x+\dots+a_{n-1}x^{n-1}+x^n$ over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ of degree $n$ with $(a_0, a_1, \dots, a_{n-1}, 1)$ lying in a fixed affine algebraic set $V$ of points in $\mathbb{F}_q^{n+1}$.