%0 Journal Article %A Bradley Delso, Margarita %T An elementary based sufficient condition for sums of 2mth powers of polynomials over non-archimedean real closed fields %D 1990 %@ 0022-4049 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/57160 %X Using some model-theoretic arguments applied to the theory of real valuations, we obtain a sufficient condition based on elementary properties of , K any real closed field, for ƒ to be sum of 2mth powers of rational functions in K(x). %~