Sums of distinct integral squares in real quadratic fields (Q544893)
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Sums of distinct integral squares in real quadratic fields (English)
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16 June 2011
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The authors enumerate all 160 integral positive definite binary quadratic forms which cannot be represented as sums of distinct squares of linear forms. Using this result it is shown that all totally positive integers of sufficiently large norms in real quadratic fields are represented as sums of distinct integral squares.
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sums of squares
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real quadratic fields
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integral squares
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binary quadratic forms
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