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On Indefinite Ternary Quadratic Forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

B. W. Jones  and
G. L. Watson
B. W. Jones
Affiliation:
Queen Mary College, London and University of Colorado
G. L. Watson
Affiliation:
University College London
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1, Introduction. The first systematic study of equivalence of indefinite ternary quadratic forms seems to be that of A. Meyer (10) (see also Bachmann (1)). By methods which are often obscure he showed that the number of classes in a genus is a power of 2, the exact power depending on certain quadratic characters associated with the form.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 8 , 1956 , pp. 592 - 608
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1956

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