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Elementary Proofs of Representation by Ternary Quadratic Forms

Number Theory 2022-06-02 v1

Abstract

Mordell in 1958 gave a new proof of the three squares theorem. Those techniques were generalized by Blackwell, et al., in 2016 to characterize the integers represented by the remaining six "Ramanujan-Dickson ternaries". We continue the generalization of these techniques to four additional forms.

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@article{arxiv.2206.00589,
  title  = {Elementary Proofs of Representation by Ternary Quadratic Forms},
  author = {Benjamin Rainear and Katherine Thompson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.00589},
  year   = {2022}
}
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