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On simultaneous additive equations, IV

Part of: Diophantine equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Trevor D. Wooley
Trevor D. Wooley
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Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, East Hall, 525 East University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1109, U.S.A.
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Recent advances in the theory of exponential sums (see, for example, [6], [7], [8], [12]) have contributed to corresponding progress in our understanding of the solubility of systems of simultaneous additive equations (see, in particular, [1], [2], [3], [4]). In a previous memoir [11] we developed a version of Vaughan's iterative method (see Vaughan [8]) suitable for the analysis of simultaneous additive equations of differing degrees, discussing in detail the solubility of simultaneous cubic and quadratic equations. The mean value estimates derived in [11] are, unfortunately, weaker than might be hoped, owing to the presence of undesirable singular solutions in certain auxiliary systems of congruences. The methods of [12] provide a flexible alternative to Vaughan's iterative method, and, as was apparent even at the time of their initial development at the opening of the present decade, such ideas provide a means of avoiding altogether the aforementioned problematic singular solutions. The systematic development of such an approach having been described recently in [15], in this paper we apply such methods to investigate the solubility of pairs of additive equations, one cubic and one quadratic, thereby improving the main conclusion of [11].

MSC classification

Secondary: 11D72: Equations in many variables
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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , December 1998 , pp. 319 - 335
Copyright
Copyright © University College London 1998

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