Primitively universal quaternary quadratic forms

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2022.07.011MaRDI QIDQ6392295arXivWikidataFDO

Authors Jangwon Ju, Daejun Kim, Kyoungmin Kim, Min-Gyu Kim, Byeong-Kweon Oh

Publication date 28 February 2022

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JNT.2022.07.011

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over global rings and fields (11E12) General ternary and quaternary quadratic forms; forms of more than two variables (11E20)

arXiv classification

math.NT

Abstract: A (positive definite and integral) quadratic form $f$ is said to be $extituniversal$ if it represents all positive integers, and is said to be $extitprimitivelyuniversal$ if it represents all positive integers primitively. We also say $f$ is $extitprimitivelyalmostuniversal$ if it represents almost all positive integers primitively. Conway and Schneeberger proved (see [1]) that there are exactly $204$ equivalence classes of universal quaternary quadratic forms. Recently, Earnest and Gunawardana proved in [4] that among $204$ equivalence classes of universal quaternary quadratic forms, there are exactly $152$ equivalence classes of primitively almost universal quaternary quadratic forms. In this article, we prove that there are exactly $107$ equivalence classes of primitively universal quaternary quadratic forms. We also determine the set of all positive integers that are not primitively represented by each of the remaining $152-107=45$ equivalence classes of primitively almost universal quaternary quadratic forms.

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