Type: Article
Publication Date: 2009-11-12
Citations: 18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1112/plms/pdp043
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.