Every Ternary Quintic is a Sum of Ten Fifth Powers

Abstract

To our knowledge at the time of writing, the maximum Waring rank for the set of all ternary forms of degree $d$ (with coefficients in an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero) is known only for $d\le 4$. The best upper bound that is known for $d=5$ is twelve, and in this work we lower it to ten.

Relevant information added in the footnote (1) at p. 2

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