Representations of squares by certain diagonal quadratic forms in an odd number of variables

DOI10.1216/RMJ.2023.53.1219arXiv2110.03974MaRDI QIDQ6184973FDOQ6184973

Authors: B. Ramakrishnan, Brundaban Sahu, Anup Kumar Singh 

Publication date: 5 January 2024

Published in: Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we consider the following diagonal quadratic forms �egin{equation*} a_1x_1^2 + a_2x_2^2 + cdots + a_{ell}x_{ell}^2, end{equation*} where $ellge5$ is an odd integer and $a_{i}ge1$ are integers. By using the extended Shimura correspondence, we obtain explicit formulas for the number of representations of $|D|n^2$ by the above type of quadratic forms, where $D$ is either a square-free integer or a fundamental discriminant such that $(-1{)}^{(ell-1)/2}D>0$. We demonstrate our method with many examples, in particular, we obtain all the formulas (when $ell=5$) obtained in the work of Cooper-Lam-Ye (Acta. Arith. 2013) and all the representation formulas for $n^2$ obtained by them in (Integers, 2013) when $n$ is even. The works of Cooper et. al make use of certain theta function identities combined with a method of Hurwitz to derive these formulas. It is to be noted that our method works in general with arbitrary coefficients $a_i$. As a consequence to some of our formulas, we obtain certain identities among the representation numbers and also some congruences involving Fourier coefficients of certain newforms of weights $6,8$ and the divisor functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03974

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zbMATH Keywords

modular formsShimura correspondencequadratic forms in odd variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Holomorphic modular forms of integral weight (11F11) Forms of half-integer weight; nonholomorphic modular forms (11F37) General ternary and quaternary quadratic forms; forms of more than two variables (11E20) Sums of squares and representations by other particular quadratic forms (11E25) Modular correspondences, etc. (11F32)

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