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A ‘Hardy–Littlewood’ approach to the norm form equation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

G. R. Everest
G. R. Everest
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School of Mathematics, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ
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Suppose that K is a number field and n = [K: ℚ]. Write S∞(K) for the set of archimedean places of K, i.e. the set of all embeddings σ: K → ℂ. Suppose that is a linear form in t variables x1, …, xt, where the aj ∈ K. This gives rise to a norm form N(x), where

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 104 , Issue 3 , November 1988 , pp. 421 - 427
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1988

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