Let f₁,,fₘ be polynomials in n variables with coefficients in a finite field Fq. We estimate the number of points x in Fqⁿ such that each value fᵢ(x) is a nonzero square in Fq. The error term is especially small when the fᵢ define smooth projective quadrics with nonsingular intersections. We improve the error term in a recent work by Asgarli--Yip on mutual position of smooth quadrics.
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