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Binary quartic forms with bounded invariants and small Galois groups

Number Theory 2019-11-13 v3

Abstract

In this paper, we consider integral and irreducible binary quartic forms whose Galois group is isomorphic to a subgroup of the dihedral group of order eight. We first show that the set of all such forms is a union of families indexed by integral binary quadratic forms f(x,y)f(x,y) of non-zero discriminant. Then, we shall enumerate the GL2(Z)\operatorname{GL}_2(\mathbb{Z})-equivalence classes of all such forms associated to a fixed f(x,y)f(x,y).

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@article{arxiv.1702.07407,
  title  = {Binary quartic forms with bounded invariants and small Galois groups},
  author = {Cindy Tsang and Stanley Yao Xiao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.07407},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

36 pages; revised to include new result distinguishing $D_4$-forms from $C_4$-forms

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