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Algebra and Geometry Seminar--Qualifying Exam

Date:
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Location:
745 Patterson Office Tower
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Luis Sordo Vieira, University of Kentucky

Title:  On Artin's Conjecture for diagonal forms

Abstract:  Emil Artin conjectured that any form of degree d in more than d^2 variables with coefficients in a p-adic field K has a nontrivial zero in K. Terjanian provided a counterexample to the conjecture, and many more have been found afterwards. However, in the case of diagonal forms, the result is known to hold for K=\mathbb{Q}_p. The conjecture for diagonal forms over arbitrary p-adic fields remains unproved. We investigate partial results.