Positive ternary quadratic forms with finitely many exceptions
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Abstract:
An integral quadratic form $f$ is said to be almost regular if $f$ globally represents all but finitely many integers that are represented by the genus of $f$. In this paper, we study and characterize all almost regular positive definite ternary quadratic forms.References
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Additional Information
- Wai Kiu Chan
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut 06459
- MR Author ID: 336822
- Email: wkchan@wesleyan.edu
- Byeong-Kweon Oh
- Affiliation: Department of Applied Mathematics, Sejong University, Seoul 143-747, Korea
- Email: bkoh@sejong.ac.kr
- Received by editor(s): October 15, 2002
- Published electronically: January 27, 2004
- Additional Notes: The research of the first author is partially supported by the National Security Agency and the National Science Foundation
The work of the second author was supported by KOSEF Grant # 98-0701-01-05-L - Communicated by: David E. Rohrlich
- © Copyright 2004 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), 1567-1573
- MSC (2000): Primary 11E12, 11E20
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07433-7
- MathSciNet review: 2051115