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$p$-adic Zeros of Quintic Forms

Number Theory 2014-08-19 v4

Abstract

It is shown that a quintic form over a p-adic field with at least 26 variables has a non-trivial zero, providing that the cardinality of the residue class field exceeds 9.

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@article{arxiv.1308.0999,
  title  = {$p$-adic Zeros of Quintic Forms},
  author = {Jan H. Dumke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.0999},
  year   = {2014}
}

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