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$p$-Adic quotient sets: diagonal forms

Number Theory 2022-01-13 v1

Abstract

For a set of integers AA, we consider R(A)={a/b:a,bA,b0}R(A)=\{a/b: a, b\in A, b\neq 0\}. It is an open problem to study the denseness of R(A)R(A) in the pp-adic numbers when AA is the set of nonzero values attained by an integral form. This problem has been answered for quadratic forms. Very recently, Antony and Barman have studied this problem for the diagonal binary cubic forms ax3+by3ax^3+by^3, where aa and bb are integers. In this article, we study this problem for diagonal forms. We extend the results of Antony and Barman to the diagonal binary forms axn+bynax^n+by^n for all n3n\geq 3. We also study pp-adic denseness of quotients of nonzero values attained by diagonal forms of degree n3n\geq 3, where gcd(n,p(p1))=1\gcd(n,p(p-1))=1.

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@article{arxiv.2201.04372,
  title  = {$p$-Adic quotient sets: diagonal forms},
  author = {Deepa Antony and Rupam Barman and Piotr Miska},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.04372},
  year   = {2022}
}

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8 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2110.05420

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