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  • David Hilbert
    metalogic
    / Ultrafilters, ultraproducts, and ultrapowers

    p-adic completion of the rational numbers. The conjecture has been made that every form of degree d (in the same sense as degrees of ordinary polynomials) over Qp, in which the number of variables exceeds d2, has a nontrivial zero in Qp. Using ultraproducts, it…

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    p-adic completion of the rational numbers. The conjecture has been made that every form of degree d (in the same sense as degrees of ordinary polynomials) over Qp, in which the number of variables exceeds d2, has a nontrivial zero in Qp. Using ultraproducts, it…

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