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The universal quaternary quadratic form with the maximal discriminant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Hiromu Iwabuchi
Affiliation:
Faculty of Science and Technology, Kobe University, Nada, Kobe 657-8501, Japan E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

A positive definite integral quadratic form over rational integers is said to be universal, if it represents all positive integers. The universal quaternary quadratic form is determined with the maximal discriminant, which is 1073/4.

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Research Article
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Copyright © University College London 2002

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