Lifting problem for universal quadratic forms
Number Theory
2020-11-30 v2
Abstract
We study totally real number fields that admit a universal quadratic form whose coefficients are rational integers. We show that is the only such real quadratic field, and that among fields of degrees 3, 4, 5, and 7 which have principal codifferent ideal, the only one is , over which the form is universal. Moreover, we prove an upper bound for Pythagoras numbers of orders in number fields that depends only on the degree of the number field.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1808.02262,
title = {Lifting problem for universal quadratic forms},
author = {Vítězslav Kala and Pavlo Yatsyna},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.02262},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
16 pages, incorporated referee comments