Zeros of <i>p</i> -adic forms

Type: Article

Publication Date: 2009-11-12

Citations: 18

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1112/plms/pdp043

Abstract

A variant of Brauer's induction method is developed. It is shown that quartic p-adic forms with at least 9127 variables have non-trivial zeros, for every p. For odd p considerably fewer variables are needed. There are also subsidiary new results concerning quintic forms, and systems of forms.

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