A new Waring's problem with squares of linear forms.

DOI10.1093/QMATH/OS-1.1.276MaRDI QIDQ1830759zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Louis J. Mordell

Publication date 1930

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics. Oxford Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/qmath/os-1.1.276

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of squares and representations by other particular quadratic forms (11E25) Waring's problem and variants (11P05)

Review text

Gefragt ist, wieviel Summanden allgemein ausreichen, um eine quadratische Form \[ ax^2 + 2hxy + by^2 \] als Quadratsumme \[ \sum\limits_{r=1}^n (a_rx + b_ry)^2 \] mit ganzzahligen Koeffizienten \(a_r\), \(b_r\) darzustellen. Daß \(n=4\) nicht immer ausreicht, erkennt man sofort an der Form \(x^2 + 7y^2\), wo aus \(a_1 = 1\), \(a+2=\cdots= 0\) folgt: \(b_1 = 0\), und dann noch \(b_2, b_3, b_4, b_5\) nötig sind. Es wird nun gezeigt, daß \(n = 5\) immer ausreicht, aber auch \(5\) Summanden notwendig sind, wenn \(\Delta = ab - h^2\) die Form \(4^\varrho (8\sigma - 1)\) hat, sonst \(n\leqq 4\). Für \(\Delta = 4^\varrho (8\sigma - 1)\) braucht man auch bei rationalen \(a_r\), \(b_r\) schon \(5\) Summanden, wie Landau gezeigt hat.

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