Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Author(s): Wai Kiu Chan; Byeong-Kweon Oh
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), 1567-1573.
MSC (2000): Primary 11E12, 11E20
Posted: January 27, 2004
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Abstract: An integral quadratic form

is said to be almost regular if

globally represents all but finitely many integers that are represented by the genus of

. In this paper, we study and characterize all almost regular positive definite ternary quadratic forms.

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Wai Kiu Chan
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut 06459
Email: wkchan@wesleyan.edu

Byeong-Kweon Oh
Affiliation: Department of Applied Mathematics, Sejong University, Seoul 143-747, Korea
Email: bkoh@sejong.ac.kr

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07433-7
PII: S 0002-9939(04)07433-7
Received by editor(s): October 15, 2002
Posted: 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 of article: Copyright 2004, American Mathematical Society

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