Cooper and Lam's conjecture for generalized Bell ternary quadratic forms (Q495269)

Bell's theorem determines the counting function of the ternary quadratic forms \(x^2 +by^2 +cz^2\), with \(b, c \in \{1, 2, 4, 8\}, \) in terms of the number \(r_3(n) \) of representations of \(n\) as a sum of three squares. The author verifies the conjecture of \textit{S. Cooper} and \textit{H. Y. Lam} [J. Number Theory 133, No. 2, 719--737 (2013; Zbl 1309.11022)]. This result includes two new cases so far left open.