Ternary quadratic forms representing a given arithmetic progression

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2021.09.017MaRDI QIDQ2071697zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tomáš Hejda, Vitězslav Kala

Publication date 28 January 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02538

zbMATH Keywords

arithmetic progressiondiagonalquadratic formternaryuniversal

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) Sums of squares and representations by other particular quadratic forms (11E25)

Abstract: A positive quadratic form is $(k,ell)$-universal if it represents all the numbers $kx+ell$ where $x$ is a non-negative integer, and almost $(k,ell)$-universal if it represents all but finitely many of them. We prove that for any $k,ell$ such that $kmidell$ there exists an almost $(k,ell)$-universal diagonal ternary form. We also conjecture that there are only finitely many primes $p$ for which a $(p,ell)$-universal diagonal ternary form exists (for any $ell<p$) and we show the results of computer experiments that speak in favor of the conjecture.

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