On Kato and Kuzumaki's properties for the Milnor $K_2$ of function fields of $p$-adic curves

Abstract: Let $K$ be the function field of a curve $C$ over a $p$-adic field $k$. We prove that, for each $n, d \geq 1$ and for each hypersurface $Z$ in $\mathbb{P}^n_{K}$ of degree $d$ with $d^2 \leq n$, the second Milnor $K$-theory group of $K$ is spanned by the images of the norms coming from finite extensions $L$ of $K$ over which $Z$ has a rational point. When the curve $C$ has a point in the maximal unramified extension of $k$, we generalize this result to hypersurfaces $Z$ in $\mathbb{P}^n_{K}$ of degree $d$ with $d \leq n$.