Solubility of Systems of Quadratic Forms

DOI10.1112/S0024609396002664MaRDI QIDQ4896114zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Greg Martin

Publication date 27 July 1997

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9804051

zbMATH Keywords

local fieldnontrivial zerosystems of quadratic formsupper bound

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diophantine equations in many variables (11D72) Quadratic forms over local rings and fields (11E08)

Abstract: We derive an upper bound for the least number of variables needed to guarantee that a system of t quadratic forms (t>=2) over a field F has a nontrivial zero. In particular, if F is a local field, then 2t^2+3 variables insure the existence of a nontrivial zero (2t^2+1 if t is even), while if F=Q_p with p>=11, then 2t^2-2t+5 variables suffice (2t^2-2t+1 if 3 divides t). The improvement lies in a more efficient use of information on the solubility of pairs and triplets of quadratic forms, and the arguments are completely elementary.

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