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On an isotropy criterion for quadratic forms over function fields of curves over non-dyadic complete discrete valuation rings

David Grimm (2016)

Banach Center Publications

Harbater, Hartmann and Krashen obtained in 2015 a criterion for the existence of rational points on projective (or principal) homogeneous varieties for rational connected algebraic groups defined over function fields of normal curves over a complete discrete valuation ring in terms of completions of local rings at special points. This was obtained by a reduction via Artin approximation to a related patching problem solved by the same authors in 2009. In the special case of projective quadrics, we...

On integral representations by totally positive ternary quadratic forms

Elise Björkholdt (2000)

Journal de théorie des nombres de Bordeaux

Let K be a totally real algebraic number field whose ring of integers R is a principal ideal domain. Let f ( x 1 , x 2 , x 3 ) be a totally definite ternary quadratic form with coefficients in R . We shall study representations of totally positive elements N R by f . We prove a quantitative formula relating the number of representations of N by different classes in the genus of f to the class number of R [ - c f N ] , where c f R is a constant depending only on f . We give an algebraic proof of a classical result of H. Maass on representations...

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