Waring's problem for algebras over fields

DOI10.1016/0022-314X(87)90085-0MaRDI QIDQ1092106zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. N. Vaserstein

Publication date 1987

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-314x(87)90085-0

zbMATH Keywords

Waring's problem for rings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomials and matrices (11C99) Waring's problem and variants (11P05) General commutative ring theory (13A99)

Review text

For a ring A let \(w_ k(A)\) denote the smallest s such that every sum of kth powers in A is a sum of s kth powers; let \(v_ k(A)\) denote the corresponding infimum for the sum-or-difference of kth powers. This paper gives a detailed study of \(v_ k(A)\) and \(w_ k(A)\) when A is an algebra over a field F. The main result can be stated as follows: \(v_ k(A)\leq k^ 3\) when A is commutative and either F is infinite or A has transcendence degree 1 over F. This statement swallows up several more precise results, which give sharper upper bounds in many situations of interest.

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