Cubes of integral vectors in dimension four
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Cubes of integral vectors in dimension four
zbMATH Open document ID: 1274.11166
author: Emil W. Kiss
author: Péter Kutas
published in: Studia Scientiarum Mathematicarum Hungarica
publication date: 2013-11-07T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3113
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11R52
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 52C07
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11D45
zbMATH DE Number: 6223878
zbMATH Keywords: integral cube
zbMATH Keywords: Hurwitz integral quaternion
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
arXiv ID: 1108.3113
OpenAlex ID: W2963660500
DOI: 10.1556/SSCMATH.49.2012.4.1225
review text: For \(1 \leq m \leq 4\), the \(m\)-tuple \((v_1, \dots, v_m)\) of vectors \(v_i \in \mathbb Z^4\) are called an \(m\)-icube, if these vectors are pairwise orthogonal and have the same length.NEWLINENEWLINEIn this paper it is shown that for \(1 \leq m \leq 3\) every \(m\)-icube in \(\mathbb Z^4\) can be extended to a \(4\)-icube. Furthermore, for every \(1 \leq m \leq 4\) and \(N \in \mathbb N\), the authors give a formula for \(f_m(N)\), the number of \(m\)-icubes with vectors of length \(\sqrt N\). It turns out that there are constants \(c_m\) such that \(f_m(N)/c_m\) is a multiplicative function. The formula for \(f_1(N)\) goes back to Jacobi.NEWLINENEWLINEThe proof makes intensive use of the arithmetic of Hurwitz integral quaternions and its subring of Lipschitz quaternions, i.e. quaternions with integral coefficients.
reviewed by: Günter Lettl
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6223878