The strict Waring problem for polynomial rings

Luis H. Gallardo; Leonid N. Vaserstein

doi:10.1016/j.jnt.2008.07.009

The strict Waring problem for polynomial rings

Luis H. Gallardo, Leonid N. Vaserstein

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We prove among several results that under mild conditions any polynomial in F_q [t] is a strict sum of k⁴ kth powers improving on an exponential (k² 2^{k + 1}) bound of Car-Effinger-Hayes.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2963-2972
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Number Theory
Volume	128
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnt.2008.07.009
State	Published - Dec 2008

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Algebra and Number Theory

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