Artin's conjecture on forms over the pp-adic numbers

For a field kk, say that it is C2C_2 if, for every form Fk[X1,,Xn]F\in k[X_1,\ldots,X_n] of degree dd with n>d2n>d^2, the equation

F(X1,,Xn)=0F(X_1,\ldots,X_n)=0

has a nontrivial solution in knk^n. Artin's conjecture. For each prime number pp, the field Qp\mathbb{Q}_p is C2C_2. The conjecture is false: Terjanian gave a counterexample in degree d=4d=4 and p=2p=2, later generalized to arbitrary pp.

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Primary source

Sylvy Anscombe, “The model theory of perfectoid fields [after Jahnke and Kartas]”, arXiv:2602.23779 (2026).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2004–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2508.20192, arXiv:1002.3754, arXiv:math/0410223.

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