Solubility of additive quartic forms over ramified quadratic extensions of Q₂

Abstract: We determine the minimal number of variables

G a m m a^{*} (d, K)

which guarantees a nontrivial solution for every additive form of degree

d = 4

over the four ramified quadratic extensions

m a t h b b Q_{2} (s q r t 2), m a t h b b Q_{2} (s q r t 10), m a t h b b Q_{2} (s q r t - 2), m a t h b b Q_{2} (s q r t - 10)

of

m a t h b b Q_{2}

. In all four fields, we prove that

G a m m a^{*} (4, K) = 11

. This is the first example of such a computation for a proper extension of

m a t h b b Q_{p}

where the degree is a power of

p

greater than

p

.

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