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2021/99/3-4 (10) — DOI: 10.5486/PMD.2021.8973 — pp. 431-446

Solubility of additive sextic forms over $\mathbb{Q}_2(\sqrt{-1})$ and $\mathbb{Q}_2(\sqrt{-5})$

Authors: Drew Duncan and David B. Leep

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