On a theorem of Friedlander and Iwaniec

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2010.08.004MaRDI QIDQ710833zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jean Bourgain, Alex Kontorovich

Publication date 22 October 2010

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.0825

zbMATH Keywords

sum of eight squares

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of squares and representations by other particular quadratic forms (11E25)

Abstract: In [FI09], Friedlander and Iwaniec studied the so-called Hyperbolic Prime Number Theorem, which asks for an infinitude of elements gamma in SL(2,Z) such that the norm squared |gamma|^2 = a^2 + b^2 + c^2 + d^2 = p, a prime. Under the Elliott-Halberstam conjecture, they proved the existence of such, as well as a formula for their count, off by a constant from the conjectured asymptotic. In this note, we study the analogous question replacing the integers with the Gaussian integers. We prove unconditionally that for every odd n>=3, there is a gamma in SL(2,Z[i]) such that |gamma|^2 = n. In particular, every prime is represented. The proof is an application of Siegel's mass formula.

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