An upper bound on the number of perfect quadratic forms
Number Theory
2020-11-17 v2 Combinatorics
Metric Geometry
Abstract
In a recent preprint on arXiv Roland Bacher showed that the number of non-similar perfect -dimensional quadratic forms satisfies . We improve the upper bound to by a volumetric argument based on Voronoi's first reduction theory.
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@article{arxiv.1901.04807,
title = {An upper bound on the number of perfect quadratic forms},
author = {Wessel P. J. van Woerden},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.04807},
year = {2020}
}