A generalization of Watson transformation and representations of ternary quadratic forms

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2016.03.019zbMATH Open1419.11062arXiv1601.01433OpenAlexW2963460963MaRDI QIDQ290042FDOQ290042

Authors: Jangwon Ju, Inhwan Lee, Byeong-Kweon Oh 

Publication date: 1 June 2016

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

Abstract: Let $L$ be a positive definite (non-classic) ternary $z$-lattice and let $p$ be a prime such that a $frac12z_p$-modular component of $L_p$ is nonzero isotropic and $4cdotdL$ is not divisible by $p$. For a nonnegative integer $m$, let $mathcal{G}_{L,p}(m)$ be the genus with discriminant $p^{m}cdotdL$ on the quadratic space $L^{p^m}otimesq$ such that for each lattice $Tinmathcal{G}_{L,p}(m)$, a $frac12z_p$-modular component of $T_p$ is nonzero isotropic, and $T_q$ is isometric to $(L^{p^m}{)}_q$ for any prime $q$ different from $p$. Let $r(n,M)$ be the number of representations of an integer $n$ by a $z$-lattice $M$. In this article, we show that if $mle2$ and $n$ is divisible by $p$ only when $m=2$, then for any $Tinmathcal{G}_{L,p}(m)$, $r(n,T)$ can be written as a linear summation of $r(pn,S_i)$ and $r(p^{3}n,S_i)$ for $S_{i}inmathcal{G}_{L,p}(m+1)$ with an extra term in some special case. We provide a simple criterion on when the extra term is necessary, and we compute the extra term explicitly. We also give a recursive relation to compute $r(n,T)$, for any $Tinmathcal{G}_{L,p}(m)$, by using the number of representations of some integers by lattices in $mathcal{G}_{L,p}(m+1)$ for an arbitrary integer $m$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.01433

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zbMATH Keywords

representations of ternary quadratic formsWatson transformation

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)

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