Pairs of additive forms of odd degrees (Q715700)

In this paper the author considers a system of two of additive equations \[ a_{1}x_{1}^{k} + \cdots + a_{s}x_{s}^{k} = b_{1}x_{1}^{n} + \cdots + b_{s}x_{s}^{n} = 0 \] with all coefficients in \(\mathbb{Q}\), and proves that this system has nontrivial solutions in \(p\)-adic integers for every prime \(p\), provided the degrees \(k\) and \(n\) are both odd and \(s\geq k^2 + n^2 + 1\), confirming a special case of a conjecture of Artin. For the proof, the author studies the \(p\)-adic solubility of a single equation obtaining a general estimate for the necessary number of variables \(s\), and for many degrees, he presents the best possible values for \(s\).