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Local conditions for global representations of quadratic forms

Number Theory 2015-05-13 v4

Abstract

We show that the theorem of Ellenberg and Venkatesh on representation of integral quadratic forms by integral positive definite quadratic forms is valid under weaker conditions on the represented form.

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@article{arxiv.0804.2158,
  title  = {Local conditions for global representations of quadratic forms},
  author = {Rainer Schulze-Pillot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.2158},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

9 pages, v2: corrected typos, added a corollary using results of Kitaoka. v3: added results about representations with congruence conditions and about extensions of representations. v4: minor corrections. Paper to appear in Acta Arithmetica

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