Arithmetic behaviour of the sums of three squares

DOI10.1016/0022-314X(87)90067-9MaRDI QIDQ1091423zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors B. George

Publication date 1987

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-314X(87)90067-9

zbMATH Keywords

alternating groupcentral extensionGalois groupmaximum number of summandsnumber of representationsShimura's correspondencesum of three integral squaresternary quadratic formstheta-functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over global rings and fields (11E12) Analytic theory (Epstein zeta functions; relations with automorphic forms and functions) (11E45) Holomorphic modular forms of integral weight (11F11) Waring's problem and variants (11P05) Galois theory (11R32)

Review text

The purpose of this paper is to calculate, for a positive integer \(n\) which has a representation as a sum of three integral squares, the maximum number of summands which can be prime to \(n\). The theorem is that this number is 3 or 2 according to whether \(n\) is coprime to 10, and provided \(n\) is large enough (depending on the radical of \(n\)). The proof uses the evaluation of the number of representations of \(n\) by ternary quadratic forms of special types. This in turn depends on classical results of \textit{C. L. Siegel} [Ann. Math. (2) 36, 527--606 (1935; Zbl 0012.19703)]. Other elements in the proof are Shimura's correspondence and the theory of theta-functions given by \textit{R. Schulze-Pillot} [Invent. Math. 75, 283--299 (1984; Zbl 0533.10021)]. As a consequence, applying directly a theorem of \textit{N. Vila} [Arch. Math. 44, 424--437 (1985; Zbl 0562.12011)], the authors conclude that if \(n\) is congruent to 3 modulo 8 and sufficiently large (as above) then every central extension of the alternating group \(A_n\) can be realized as a Galois group over \(\mathbb Q\).

Recommendations

• An arithmetic problem on the sums of three squares
• Gauss's three squares theorem with almost prime variables
• A THREE SQUARES THEOREM WITH ALMOST PRIMES
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3865424
• Sum of three squares and class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3758416 (Why is no real title available?)
• On central extensions of \(A_ n\) as Galois group over \({\mathbb{Q}}\)
• On modular forms of half integral weight
• On stem extensions of \(S_ n\) as Galois group over number fields
• Spinor norms of local integral rotations. II
• Thetareihen positiv definiter quadratischer Formen
• Zeta functions and genus of quadratic forms

Cited in

(3)

• On the summation of the singular series
• On stem extensions of \(S_ n\) as Galois group over number fields
• An arithmetic problem on the sums of three squares

This page was built for publication: Arithmetic behaviour of the sums of three squares

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1091423)