Birch's theorem with shifts

Abstract: Let

f_{1}, ..., f_{R}

be rational forms of degree

d g e 2

in

n > s i g m a + R (R + 1) (d - 1) 2^{d - 1}

variables, where

s i g m a

is the dimension of the affine variety cut out by the condition

m a t h r m r a n k (a b l a f_{k})_{k = 1}^{R} < R

. Assume that

m a t h b f f = m a t h b f 0

has a nonsingular real solution, and that the forms

(1, ..., 1) c d o t a b l a f_{k}

are linearly independent. Let

, let

m u

be an irrational real number, and let

e t a

be a positive real number. We consider the values taken by

m a t h b f f (x_{1} + m u, ..., x_{n} + m u)

for integers

x_{1}, ..., x_{n}

. We show that these values are dense in

m a t h b b R^{R}

, and prove an asymptotic formula for the number of integer solutions

m a t h b f x i n [- P, P]^{n}

to the system of inequalities

| f_{k} (x_{1} + m u, ..., x_{n} + m u) - a u_{k} | < e t a

(

1 l e k l e R

).

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