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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 ff analogous to the one by Conway for binary quadratic forms and the one of Bestvina-Savin for binary Hermitian forms. Given a maximal order O\mathcal O in a definite quaternion algebra over Q\mathbb Q, we define the waterworld of ff, analogous to Conway's river and Bestvina-Savin's ocean, and use it to give a combinatorial description of the values of ff on O×O\mathcal O\times\mathcal O. We use an appropriate normalisation of Busemann distances to the cusps (with an algebraic description given in an independent appendix), and the SL2(O)\operatorname{SL}_2(\mathcal O)-equivariant Ford-Voronoi cellulation of the real hyperbolic 55-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

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