English

Isolations of the sum of two squares from its proper subforms

Number Theory 2023-08-10 v1

Abstract

For a (positive definite and integral) quadratic form ff, a quadratic form is said to be {\it an isolation of ff from its proper subforms} if it represents all proper subforms of ff, but not ff itself. It was proved that the minimal rank of isolations of the square quadratic form x2x^2 is three, and there are exactly 1515 ternary diagonal isolations of x2x^2. Recently, it was proved that any quaternary quadratic form cannot be an isolation of the sum of two squares I2=x2+y2I_2=x^2+y^2, and there are quinary isolations of I2I_2. In this article, we prove that there are at most 231231 quinary isolations of I2I_2, which are listed in Table 11. Moreover, we prove that 1414 quinary quadratic forms with dagger mark in Table 11 are isolations of I2I_2.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2308.04720,
  title  = {Isolations of the sum of two squares from its proper subforms},
  author = {Jangwon Ju and Daejun Kim and Kyoungmin Kim and Mingyu Kim and Byeong-Kweon Oh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.04720},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

14 pages