Orthogonal splitting and class numbers of quadratic forms

DOI10.1016/0022-314X(73)90034-6MaRDI QIDQ758504zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Larry J. Gerstein

Publication date 1973

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-314X(73)90034-6

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over general fields (11E04) Class numbers of quadratic and Hermitian forms (11E41)

Review text

The author's main result may be explained as follows. Let \(f\) be an \(n\)-ary quadratic form over the integer ring of an algebraic number field \(F\), denote by \(h\) the number of classes in the genus of \(f\), and suppose that \(f\) is definite. Then \[ h\geq p([(n-5)/16]), \] where \(p\) is the partition function. This is proved by first showing (for either definite or indefinite \(f\)) that the genus contains a disjoint form if \(n\) is large enough.

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