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Primitively universal quaternary quadratic forms

Number Theory 2022-03-01 v1

Abstract

A (positive definite and integral) quadratic form ff is said to be universal\textit{universal} if it represents all positive integers, and is said to be primitively universal\textit{primitively universal} if it represents all positive integers primitively. We also say ff is primitively almost universal\textit{primitively almost universal} if it represents almost all positive integers primitively. Conway and Schneeberger proved (see [1]) that there are exactly 204204 equivalence classes of universal quaternary quadratic forms. Recently, Earnest and Gunawardana proved in [4] that among 204204 equivalence classes of universal quaternary quadratic forms, there are exactly 152152 equivalence classes of primitively almost universal quaternary quadratic forms. In this article, we prove that there are exactly 107107 equivalence classes of primitively universal quaternary quadratic forms. We also determine the set of all positive integers that are not primitively represented by each of the remaining 152107=45152-107=45 equivalence classes of primitively almost universal quaternary quadratic forms.

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@article{arxiv.2202.13573,
  title  = {Primitively universal quaternary quadratic forms},
  author = {Jangwon Ju and Daejun Kim and Kyoungmin Kim and Mingyu Kim and Byeong-Kweon Oh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.13573},
  year   = {2022}
}

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