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Failures of integral Springer's Theorem

Number Theory 2025-04-17 v2

Abstract

We discuss the phenomenon where an element in a number field is not integrally represented by a given positive definite quadratic form, but becomes integrally represented by this form over a totally real extension of odd degree. We prove that this phenomenon happens infinitely often, and, conversely, establish finiteness results about the situation when the quadratic form is fixed.

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@article{arxiv.2404.12844,
  title  = {Failures of integral Springer's Theorem},
  author = {Nicolas Daans and Vítězslav Kala and Jakub Krásenský and Pavlo Yatsyna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.12844},
  year   = {2025}
}

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10 pages, author accepted manuscript

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