Book Review: Integral quadratic forms

Representation of Quadratic Forms by Integral Quadratic Forms

Multiplicative Properties of Integral Binary Quadratic Forms

In this paper, the integral binary quadratic forms for which the set of represented values is closed under k-fold products, for even positive integers k, will be characterized. This property will be seen to distinguish the elements of odd order in the form class group of a fixed discriminant. Further, it will be shown that this closure under k-fold products can always be expressed by a klinear ...

Representation by Integral Quadratic Forms - a Survey

An integral symmetric matrix S = (sij) ∈ M sym m (Z) with sii ∈ 2Z gives rise to an integral quadratic form q(x) = 12 xSx on Z. If S is positive definite, the number r(q, t) of solutions x ∈ Z of the equation q(x) = t is finite, and it is one of the classical tasks of number theory to study the qualitative question which numbers t are represented by q or the quantitative problem to determine th...

Applications of quadratic D-forms to generalized quadratic forms

In this paper, we study generalized quadratic forms over a division algebra with involution of the first kind in characteristic two. For this, we associate to every generalized quadratic from a quadratic form on its underlying vector space. It is shown that this form determines the isotropy behavior and the isometry class of generalized quadratic forms.

2-universal Positive Definite Integral Quinary Diagonal Quadratic Forms

As a generalization of the famous four square theorem of Lagrange, Ramanujan found all positive definite integral quaternary diagonal quadratic forms that represent all positive integers. In this paper, we find all positive definite integral quinary diagonal quadratic forms that represent all positive definite integral binary quadratic forms. §