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A Weak Chevalley-Warning Theorem for Quasi-finite Fields

Number Theory 2008-02-27 v2

Abstract

There exists a function f: N -> N such that for every positive integer d, every quasi-finite field K and every projective hypersurface X of degree d and dimension at least f(d), the set X(K) is non-empty. This is a special case of a more general result about intersections of hypersurfaces of fixed degree in projective spaces of sufficiently high dimension over fields with finitely generated Galois groups.

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@article{arxiv.0802.3809,
  title  = {A Weak Chevalley-Warning Theorem for Quasi-finite Fields},
  author = {Michael Larsen and Bo-Hae Im},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.3809},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

Introduction now acknowledges a paper of Ax

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