Sums of three integral squares in biquadratic fields

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2013.11.013MaRDI QIDQ2017176zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bin Zhang, Chungang Ji

Publication date 25 June 2014

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnt.2013.11.013

zbMATH Keywords

biquadratic number fieldPell equationring of integersstufesum of squares

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of squares and representations by other particular quadratic forms (11E25) Cubic and quartic extensions (11R16) Integral representations related to algebraic numbers; Galois module structure of rings of integers (11R33)

Review text

This article deals with sums of squares in number fields \(K\). Let \({\mathcal O}_K\) denote its ring of integers. The stufe \(s({\mathcal O}_K)\) is defined as the smallest number \(n\) such that \(-1\) is a sum of \(n\) squares in \({\mathcal O}_K\), and \(S_K\) is the set of all elements in \({\mathcal O}_K\) that can be written as sums of squares. Then the following results are proved: Let \(K = \mathbb Q(\sqrt{-m},\sqrt{-n}\,)\) for positive squarefree integers \(m \equiv n \equiv 3 \bmod 4\); then \(S_K = {\mathcal O}_K\). If, in addition, \({\mathcal O}_K\) has stufe \(2\), then every element in \(S_K\) can be written as a sum of at most three squares. The proofs are elementary and use the solvability of the Pell equation.

Recommendations

• Sums of Three Squares and Levels of Quadratic Number Fields
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 220888
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4217381
• Sums of three squares over imaginary quadratic fields
• Sums of three integral squares in cyclotomic fields
• Sum of three squares and class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields
• On the sum of two integral squares in certain quadratic fields
• Sums of distinct integral squares in real quadratic fields
• Sums of nonvanishing integral squares in real quadratic fields
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3920575

Cites work

• Brauer–Manin obstruction for integral points of homogeneous spaces and representation by integral quadratic forms
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3329115 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3340385 (Why is no real title available?)
• Sums of \(m\)th powers of algebraic integers
• Sums of Three Integer Squares in Complex Quadratic Fields
• Sums of three squares over imaginary quadratic fields

Cited in

(13)

• Sommes de bicarrés dans \(\mathbb Z[\sqrt{-1}]\) et \(\mathbb Z[\sqrt[3]{1}]\).
• Sums of biquadrates and cubes in \(\mathbb F_q[t]\)
• Representing multiples of \(m\) in real quadratic fields as sums of squares
• On the sum of two integral squares in quadratic fields \(\mathbb Q(\sqrt{\pm p})\)
• Sums of three squares over imaginary quadratic fields
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3961718 (Why is no real title available?)
• Sums of Three Squares and Levels of Quadratic Number Fields
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 61083 (Why is no real title available?)
• Sums of three integral squares in cyclotomic fields
• On the sum of two integral squares in the imaginary quadratic field \(\mathbb Q(\sqrt {-2p})\)
• Sums of squares of integral multiples of an integral element of real bi-quadratic fields
• A note on sums of squares in non-totally real fields
• Sums of integral squares in cyclotomic fields

This page was built for publication: Sums of three integral squares in biquadratic fields

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2017176)