On the Waring problem for polynomial rings

Abstract

In this note we discuss an analog of the classical Waring problem for C[x0,x1,...,x(n)]. Namely, we show that a general homogeneous polynomial p ∈ C[x0,x1,...,x(n)] of degree divisible by k≥2 can be represented as a sum of at most k(n) k-th powers of homogeneous polynomials in C[x0,x1,...,x(n)]. Noticeably, k(n) coincides with the number obtained by naive dimension count.