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There are 913 regular ternary forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

William C. Jagy
Affiliation:
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 1000 Centennial Drive, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.
Irving Kaplansky
Affiliation:
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 1000 Centennial Drive, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.
Alexander Schiemann
Affiliation:
Universitát des Saarlandes, FB9 Mathematik, Postfach 151150, D-66041 Saarbrücken, Germany
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The forms under discussion are integral positive definite quadratic forms in three variables. Such a form g is called regular if g represents every integer represented by the genus of g. This can be recast in elementary terms: g is regular if the solvability of ga (mod n) for every n implies the solvability of g = a.

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