Hermite reduction and a Waring's problem for integral quadratic forms over number fields

DOI10.1090/TRAN/8298MaRDI QIDQ5853497zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wai Kiu Chan, M. I. Icaza

Publication date 10 March 2021

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06454

zbMATH Keywords

integral quadratic formsreduction theorysums of squaresWaring's problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over global rings and fields (11E12) Sums of squares and representations by other particular quadratic forms (11E25) Bilinear and Hermitian forms (11E39)

Abstract: We generalize the Hermite-Korkin-Zolotarev (HKZ) reduction theory of positive definite quadratic forms over $mathbbQ$ and its balanced version introduced recently by Beli-Chan-Icaza-Liu to positive definite quadratic forms over a totally real number field $K$. We apply the balanced HKZ-reduction theory to study the growth of the {em $g$-invariants} of the ring of integers of $K$. More precisely, for each positive integer $n$, let $mathcalO$ be the ring of integers of $K$ and $g_{mathcalO}(n)$ be the smallest integer such that every sum of squares of $n$-ary $mathcalO$-linear forms must be a sum of $g_{mathcalO}(n)$ squares of $n$-ary $mathcalO$-linear forms. We show that when $K$ has class number 1, the growth of $g_{mathcalO}(n)$ is at most an exponential of $sqrtn$. This extends the recent result obtained by Beli-Chan-Icaza-Liu on the growth of $g_{mathbbZ}(n)$ and gives the first sub-exponential upper bound for $g_{mathcalO}(n)$ for rings of integers $mathcalO$ other than $mathbbZ$.

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