Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2026/iii/paper-145/5/b/solution

Write each hyperplane as , normalized so that , and put
Then and vanishes at every other point of . Reduce modulo in every variable. This preserves its function on , does not increase total degree, and gives the unique representative with each variable degree at most .
The unique reduced polynomial for the delta function at zero is
whose total degree is . Hence
Uniqueness follows equally from the Alon-Tarsi lemma on the grids .

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