2021/99/3-4 (10)
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DOI: 10.5486/PMD.2021.8973
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pp. 431-446
Solubility of additive sextic forms over $\mathbb{Q}_2(\sqrt{-1})$ and $\mathbb{Q}_2(\sqrt{-5})$
Abstract:
Michael Knapp, in a previous work, conjectured that every additive sextic form over $\mathbb{Q}_2(\sqrt{-1})$ and $\mathbb{Q}_2(\sqrt{-5})$ in seven variables has a nontrivial zero. In this paper, we show that this conjecture is true, establishing that $\Gamma^*(6,\mathbb{Q}_2(\sqrt{-1}))=\Gamma^*(6,\mathbb{Q}_2(\sqrt{-5}))=7$.
Keywords: Diophantine equations, forms in many variables
Mathematics Subject Classification: 11D72, 11D88, 11E76
