Representation sets for integral binary quadratic forms over the rationals |
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Authors: | Craig M Cordes |
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Institution: | Department of Mathematics, Louistana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 USA |
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Abstract: | Let f be an integral binary form of discriminant d which represents n integrally. Two rational representations (r, s) and (r′, s′), with denominators prime to n, of n by f are called semiequivalent with respect to f if there is a rational automorph of f with determinant 1 and denominator m which takes (r, s) into (r′, s′) where (m, n) = 1 and m contains no factors p of d such that is a discriminant. The number of such equivalence classes for a given f and n is sometimes finite. This number is obtained for forms with negative discriminants which have one class in each primitive genus. |
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