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The minima of a pair of indefinite, harmonic, binary quadratic forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Kathleen Ollerenshaw
Kathleen Ollerenshaw
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Somerville CollegeOxford
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If f is a real, indefinite, binary quadratic form of discriminant d and if κ(f) is the minimum of | f | taken over all integer values of x, y, not both zero, then it is well known that and that this is a ‘best possible’ result.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , June 1945 , pp. 77 - 96
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1945

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