An alternate proof of Cohn's four squares theorem.

DOI10.1016/j.jnt.2003.08.005zbMath1047.11034OpenAlexW2014186613MaRDI QIDQ1427983

Jesse Ira Deutsch

Publication date: 14 March 2004

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnt.2003.08.005

zbMATH Keywords

sums of squaresquaternionsgeometry of numbersMinkowski's theoremfour squares decomposition quaternions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of squares and representations by other particular quadratic forms (11E25) Waring's problem and variants (11P05) Quadratic and bilinear Diophantine equations (11D09) Computational number theory (11Y99) Multiplicative and norm form equations (11D57)

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