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Representing rational integers by generalized quadratic forms over quadratic fields

Number Theory 2026-03-24 v2

Abstract

We investigate generalized quadratic forms with values in the set of rational integers over quadratic fields. We characterize the real quadratic fields which admit a positive definite binary generalized form of this type representing every positive integer. We also show that there are only finitely many such fields where a ternary generalized form with these properties exists.

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@article{arxiv.2403.07171,
  title  = {Representing rational integers by generalized quadratic forms over quadratic fields},
  author = {Ondřej Chwiedziuk and Matěj Doležálek and Emma Pěchoučková and Zdeněk Pezlar and Om Prakash and Giuliano Romeo and Anna Růžičková and Mikuláš Zindulka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.07171},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

16 pages + 11 pages appendix; moved technical details to the appendix

R2 v1 2026-06-28T15:16:29.817Z