The representation of integers by positive ternary quadratic polynomials
Number Theory
2015-05-05 v1
Abstract
An integral quadratic polynomial is called regular if it represents every integer that is represented by the polynomial itself over the reals and over the -adic integers for every prime . It is called complete if it is of the form , where is an integral quadratic form in the variables and is a vector in . Its conductor is defined to be the smallest positive integer such that . We prove that for a fixed positive integer , there are only finitely many equivalence classes of positive primitive ternary regular complete quadratic polynomials with conductor . This generalizes the analogous finiteness results for positive definite regular ternary quadratic forms by Watson and for ternary triangular forms by Chan and Oh.
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@article{arxiv.1505.00281,
title = {The representation of integers by positive ternary quadratic polynomials},
author = {Wai Kiu Chan and James Ricci},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.00281},
year = {2015}
}