Primitively universal quaternary quadratic forms
Abstract
A (positive definite and integral) quadratic form is said to be if it represents all positive integers, and is said to be if it represents all positive integers primitively. We also say is if it represents almost all positive integers primitively. Conway and Schneeberger proved (see [1]) that there are exactly equivalence classes of universal quaternary quadratic forms. Recently, Earnest and Gunawardana proved in [4] that among equivalence classes of universal quaternary quadratic forms, there are exactly equivalence classes of primitively almost universal quaternary quadratic forms. In this article, we prove that there are exactly 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 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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21 pages