scientific article; zbMATH DE number 13422

Publication date 25 June 1992

binary positive definite unimodular Hermitian forms class number

Bilinear and Hermitian forms (11E39) Class numbers of quadratic and Hermitian forms (11E41)

Let \(\mathbb Q(i\sqrt{m})\) (\(i^ 2=-1\), \(m\) square-free) be an imaginary quadratic field and \(D_m\) its ring of algebraic integers. Let \(h_n(x)=\sum^n_{j,k=1}a_{jk}x_j\bar x_k\) \((a_{jk}=a_{kj}\in D_m)\) be an \(n\)-ary positive definite Hermitian form (abbreviated as an \(H\)-form) over \(D_m\) with discriminant \(\delta_n=\det(a_{jk})\neq 0\). Two \(H\)-forms \(h_n(x)\) and \(g_n(y)\) are said to be equivalent if there exists a unimodular transformation \(x_j=\sum^n_{k=1}a_{jk}y_k\) \((a_{jk}\in D_m\), \(j=1,\ldots,n)\) which transforms \(h_n(x)\) into \(g_n(y)\). The set of all \(H\)-forms equivalent to a given \(h_n(x)\) forms a class. In the present paper the class number \(C_m\) of binary positive definite unimodular Hermitian forms with \(m=19,43,67,163\) is determined and the representatives for each class are also explicitly given. The method heavily relies on the reduction theory of such forms. Therefore this method would be hardly applicable to \(n\)-ary \(H\)-forms with \(n\geq 3\).

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