Effective density for inhomogeneous quadratic forms I: generic forms and fixed shifts

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNAA206zbMATH Open1507.11060arXiv1911.04739MaRDI QIDQ6328992FDOQ6328992

Shucheng Yu, Anish Ghosh, Dubi Kelmer

Publication date: 12 November 2019

Abstract: We establish effective versions of Oppenheim's conjecture for generic inhomogeneous quadratic forms. We prove such results for fixed shift vectors and generic quadratic forms. When the shift is rational we prove a counting result which implies the optimal density for values of generic inhomogeneous forms. We also obtain a similar density result for fixed irrational shifts satisfying an explicit Diophantine condition. The main technical tool is a formula for the second moment of Siegel transforms on certain congruence quotients of $operatorname{SL}_n(mathbbR)$ which we believe to be of independent interest. In a sequel, we use different techniques to treat the companion problem concerning generic shifts and fixed quadratic forms.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Forms over real fields (11E10) Minima of forms (11H50)

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