Waring's problem for polynomial rings and the digit sum of exponents

DOI10.1007/S40993-016-0067-1zbMATH Open1392.11078arXiv1609.01213OpenAlexW2962870773MaRDI QIDQ515994FDOQ515994

Authors: Seth Dutter, Cole Love 

Publication date: 17 March 2017

Published in: Research in Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $F$ be an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p>0$. In this paper we develop methods to represent arbitrary elements of $F[t]$ as sums of perfect $k$-th powers for any $kinmathbbN$ relatively prime to $p$. Using these methods we establish bounds on the necessary number of $k$-th powers in terms of the sum of the digits of $k$ in its base-$p$ expansion. As one particular application we prove that for any fixed prime $p>2$ and any $epsilon>0$ the number of $(p^r-1)$-th powers required is $mathcalOleft(r^{(2+epsilon)ln(p)}ight)$ as a function of $r$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01213

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zbMATH Keywords

positive characteristiceasy Waring problempolynomials over algebraic closure of finite fieldsvariant of Waring's problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Waring's problem and variants (11P05) Polynomials over finite fields (11T06) Arithmetic theory of polynomial rings over finite fields (11T55)

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