On the number of integral binary nn‐ic forms having bounded Julia invariant

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Abstract: In 1848, Hermite introduced a reduction theory for binary forms of degree n which was developed more fully in the seminal 1917 treatise of Julia. This canonical method of reduction made use of a new, fundamental, but irrational mathrmSL2-invariant of binary n-ic forms defined over mathbbR, which is now known as the Julia invariant. In this paper, for each n and k with n+kgeq3, we determine the asymptotic behavior of the number of mathrmSL2(mathbbZ)-equivalence classes of binary n-ic forms, with k pairs of complex roots, having bounded Julia invariant. Specializing to (n,k)=(2,1) and (3,0), respectively, recovers the asymptotic results of Gauss and Davenport on positive definite binary quadratic forms and positive discriminant binary cubic forms, respectively.












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