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Small positive values of indefinite ternary forms

Part of: Geometry of numbers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Terence Jackson
Terence Jackson
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, England.
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Abstract

For an indefinite quadratic form f(x1,…,xn) of discriminant d. let P(f) denote the greatest lower bound of the positive values assumed by f for integers x1, …, xn. This paper investigates the values of P3/|d| for nonzero ternary forms of signature −1, and finds the only remaining class of forms with .

MSC classification

Secondary: 11H50: Minima of forms
Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematika , Volume 49 , Issue 1-2 , June 2002 , pp. 185 - 196
Copyright
Copyright © University College London 2002

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