Densities of integer sets represented by quadratic forms

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Abstract: Let f(t1,ldots,tn) be a nondegenerate integral quadratic form. We analyze the asymptotic behavior of the function Df(X), the number of integers of absolute value up to X represented by f. When f is isotropic or n is at least 3, we show that there is a delta(f)inmathbbQcap(0,1) such that Df(X)simdelta(f)X and call delta(f) the density of f. We consider the inverse problem of which densities arise. Our main technical tool is a Near Hasse Principle: a quadratic form may fail to represent infinitely many integers that it locally represents, but this set of exceptions has density 0 within the set of locally represented integers.




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