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On Universal Binary Hermitian Forms

Number Theory 2011-11-11 v1

Abstract

Earnest and Khosravani, Iwabuchi, and Kim and Park recently gave a complete classification of the universal binary Hermitian forms. We give a unified proof of the universalities of these Hermitian forms, relying primarily on Ramanujan's list of universal quadratic forms and on the Bhargava-Hanke 290-Theorem. Our methods bypass nearly all of the ad hoc universality arguments required in the original classification.

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@article{arxiv.0801.0481,
  title  = {On Universal Binary Hermitian Forms},
  author = {Scott D. Kominers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.0481},
  year   = {2011}
}

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