Simultaneous Additive Equations: Repeated and Differing Degrees
Journal article, 2017

We obtain bounds for the number of variables required to establish Hasse principles, both for the existence of solutions and for asymptotic formula, for systems of additive equations containing forms of differing degree but also multiple forms of like degree. Apart from the very general estimates of Schmidt and Browning-Heath-Brown, which give weak results when specialized to the diagonal situation, this is the first result on such "hybrid" systems. We also obtain specialized results for systems of quadratic and cubic forms, where we are able to take advantage of some of the stronger methods available in that setting. In particular, we achieve essentially square root cancellation for systems consisting of one cubic and r quadratic equations.

applications of the Hardy-Littlewood method

equations in many variables

counting solutions of Diophantine equations

Author

Julia Brandes

Chalmers, Mathematical Sciences, Algebra and geometry

University of Gothenburg

S. T. Parsell

West Chester University

Canadian Journal of Mathematics

0008-414X (ISSN) 1496-4279 (eISSN)

Vol. 69 2 258-283

Subject Categories

Mathematics

DOI

10.4153/CJM-2016-006-4

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Created

10/7/2017