Type number for orders of level (N_1,N_2)
Abstract
We establish an explicit formula for the type number of quaternion orders of level , where (with and odd) and . Our main result generalizes Pizer's work on Eichler orders (where is squarefree) and Boyd's formula (where ) to the general case with arbitrary prime powers in . The proof introduces a generalization of the modified Hurwitz class number , originally defined by Li, Skoruppa and the second author for squarefree levels. Through a bijection between quaternion orders and ternary quadratic forms, we express the type number as a weighted sum of representation numbers, which we evaluate explicitly via the Siegel-Weil formula and local density computations. We compute type numbers for all levels with and correct four entries in Boyd's 1994 table. As a further application, we classify all 27 pairs having type number , extending the list of 9 squarefree pairs found by Boylan, Skoruppa and the second author.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2410.10882,
title = {Type number for orders of level (N_1,N_2)},
author = {Yifan Luo and Haigang Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.10882},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2402.17443