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Large gaps between values of several binary quadratic forms

Number Theory 2025-09-22 v1

Abstract

In this paper we study the problem of long gaps between values of binary quadratic forms. Let D1D_{1}, D2,,DrD_{2},\ldots ,D_{r} be negative integers and (sn)n=1(s_{n})_{n=1}^{\infty} be the sequence of all the numbers representable by any binary quadratic form of discriminant D1D_{1}, D2D_{2}, \ldots or DrD_{r}, and let d:=lcm{D1,,Dr}d :={\rm lcm}\{D_{1},\ldots ,D_{r}\}. We show that then \begin{align*} \limsup_{n\to\infty}\frac{s_{n+1}-s_{n}}{\log s_{n}}\geq \frac{1}{\log d + \log\log d + \log\log\log d + 4}. \end{align*} This improves and generalises a result by Dietmann, Elsholtz, Kalmynin, Konyagin, and Maynard. As a by-product of our preliminary results, we show an improvement to the P\'olya-Vinogradov inequality.

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@article{arxiv.2509.15365,
  title  = {Large gaps between values of several binary quadratic forms},
  author = {Błażej Żmija},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.15365},
  year   = {2025}
}
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