Essentially unique representations by certain ternary quadratic forms

DOI10.1080/10586458.2014.938204MaRDI QIDQ5246356zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Berkovich, Frank Patane

Publication date 21 April 2015

Published in Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.2693

zbMATH Keywords

definite ternary quadratic formsMinkowski-Siegel formularepresentation of integerssums of three squares

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General binary quadratic forms (11E16) General ternary and quaternary quadratic forms; forms of more than two variables (11E20) Sums of squares and representations by other particular quadratic forms (11E25) Class numbers of quadratic and Hermitian forms (11E41) Analytic theory (Epstein zeta functions; relations with automorphic forms and functions) (11E45) Forms of half-integer weight; nonholomorphic modular forms (11F37) Class numbers, class groups, discriminants (11R29)

Abstract: In this paper we generalize the idea of "essentially unique" representations by ternary quadratic forms. We employ the Siegel formula, along with the complete classification of imaginary quadratic fields of class number less than or equal to 8, to deduce the set of integers which are represented in essentially one way by a given form which is alone in its genus. We consider a variety of forms which illustrate how this method applies to any of the 794 ternary quadratic forms which are alone in their genus. As a consequence, we resolve some conjectures of Kaplansky regarding unique representation by the forms $x^2+y^2+3z^2$, $x^2+3y^2+3z^2$, and $x^2+2y^2+3z^2$.

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