The density of integral quadratic forms having a k-dimensional totally isotropic subspace

MaRDI QIDQ6421141zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Lycka Drakengren, Tom Fisher

Publication date 20 December 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic and bilinear Diophantine equations (11D09) Quadratic forms over local rings and fields (11E08)

Abstract: We investigate the probability that a random quadratic form in $mathbbZ[x_1,\mathrm{...},x_n]$ has a totally isotropic subspace of a given dimension. We show that this global probability is a product of local probabilities. Our main result computes these local probabilities for quadratic forms over the $p$-adics. The formulae we obtain are rational functions in $p$ invariant upon substituting $pmapsto1/p$.

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