Integral binary Hamiltonian forms and their waterworlds
Number Theory
2025-10-30 v2 Differential Geometry
Group Theory
Abstract
We give a graphical theory of integral indefinite binary Hamiltonian forms analogous to the one by Conway for binary quadratic forms and the one of Bestvina-Savin for binary Hermitian forms. Given a maximal order in a definite quaternion algebra over , we define the waterworld of , analogous to Conway's river and Bestvina-Savin's ocean, and use it to give a combinatorial description of the values of on . We use an appropriate normalisation of Busemann distances to the cusps (with an algebraic description given in an independent appendix), and the -equivariant Ford-Voronoi cellulation of the real hyperbolic -space.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1810.06222,
title = {Integral binary Hamiltonian forms and their waterworlds},
author = {Jouni Parkkonen and Frédéric Paulin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.06222},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Revised version, 40 pages