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2022/101/1-2 (5) — DOI: 10.5486/PMD.2022.9146 — pp. 63-101

Diagonal forms over quadratic extensions of $\mathbb{Q}_2$

Authors: Bruno de Paula Miranda, Hemar Godinho and Michael P. Knapp

Abstract:

In 1920, Emil Artin conjectured: Let $K$ be a field complete with respect to a discrete absolute value, with finite residue field. Then every homogeneous form with coefficients in $K$ and degree $d$ with at least $d^2+ 1$ variables admits a non-trivial zero. In this article, we prove the conjecture for diagonal forms of degree $d$ not power of 2 over any quadratic extension of $\mathbb{Q}_2$.

Keywords: $p$-adic numbers, Artin's conjecture, contractions of variables

Mathematics Subject Classification: 11D72, 11D88