Positive definite quadratic forms representing integers of the form an2+b

For any subset S of positive integers, a positive definite integral quadratic form is said to be S-universal if it represents every integer in the set S. In this article, we classify all binary S-universal positive definite integral quadratic forms in the case when S=S _a ={an ²∣n≥2} or S=S _a,b ={an ²+b∣n∈ℤ}, where a is a positive integer and ab is a square-free positive integer in the latter case. We also prove that there are only finitely many S _a -universal ternary quadratic forms not representing a. Finally, we show that there are exactly 15 ternary diagonal S ₁-universal quadratic forms not representing 1.