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Universal integral quadratic forms over dyadic local fields

Number Theory 2022-06-28 v2

Abstract

A quadratic form over a non-archimedian local field of characteristic zero FF is called universal if it is integral and it represents all non-zero integers of FF. Xu Fei and Zhang Yang determined all universal quadratic forms in the case when FF is non-dyadic. In the more complicated dyadic case, when FF is a finite extension of Q2\mathbb Q_2, they solved the same problem only in the ternary case. In our paper we solve this problem in the general case. Our result is given in terms of BONGs (bases of norm generators) but in section 3 of the paper we translate (without a proof) our result in terms of the more traditional Jordan splittings. In the last section we give some results on nn-universality. We show that it can be reduced to the cases n4n\leq 4 and we give explicit necessary conditions for nn-universality in the case when n3n\geq 3, nn odd. (A quadratic form is called nn-maximal if it is integral and it represents all non-degenerate integral quadratic forms of rank nn.)

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@article{arxiv.2008.10113,
  title  = {Universal integral quadratic forms over dyadic local fields},
  author = {Constantin N. Beli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.10113},
  year   = {2022}
}
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