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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 Q(5)\mathbb Q(\sqrt 5) 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 Q(ζ7+ζ71)\mathbb Q(\zeta_7+\zeta_7^{-1}), over which the form x2+y2+z2+w2+xy+xz+xwx^2+y^2+z^2+w^2+xy+xz+xw 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.

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@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}
}

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16 pages, incorporated referee comments