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Asymptotic lower bounds for Diophantine inequalities

Part of: Diophantine equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

D. Eric Freeman
D. Eric Freeman
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Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado, Campus Box 395, Boulder, CO 80309-0395, U.S.A.
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§1. Introduction. In 1946, Davenport and Heilbronn [9] proved a result which opened up the study of Diophantine inequalities. Suppose that Q(x) is a diagonal quadratic form with non-zero real coefficients in s variables. We write

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Secondary: 11D75: Diophantine inequalities
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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 47 , Issue 1-2 , December 2000 , pp. 127 - 159
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Copyright © University College London 2000

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