Kaplansky's ternary quadratic form

This paper proves that if N is a nonnegative eligible integer, coprime to 7, which is not of the form x2+y2+7z2, then N is square-free. The proof is modelled on that of a similar theorem by Ono and Soundararajan, in which relations between the number of representations of an integer np2 by two quadr...

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Main Author: James Kelley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2001-01-01
Series:International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S0161171201005294