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On the Pythagoras numbers of real analytic curves.

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2007
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Acquistapace, Francesca
Broglia, Fabrizio
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We show that the Pythagoras number of a real analytic curve is the supremum of the Pythagoras numbers of its singularities, or that supremum plus 1. This includes cases when the Pythagoras number is infinite.
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