Binary forms and unramified An-extensions of quadratic fields.
For any Eichler order of level in an indefinite quaternion algebra of discriminant there is a Fuchsian group and a Shimura curve . We associate to a set of binary quadratic forms which have semi-integer quadratic coefficients, and we develop a classification theory, with respect to , for primitive forms contained in . In particular, the classification theory of primitive integral binary quadratic forms by is recovered. Explicit fundamental domains for allow the characterization...
We construct new birational maps between quadrics over a field. The maps apply to several types of quadratic forms, including Pfister neighbors, neighbors of multiples of a Pfister form, and half-neighbors. One application is to determine which quadrics over a field are ruled (that is, birational to the projective line times some variety) in a larger range of dimensions. We describe ruledness completely for quadratic forms of odd dimension at most 17, even dimension at most 10, or dimension 14....
Dans cette note nous décrivons différentes méthodes utilisées en pratique pour calculer le nombre de classes d'un corps quadratique imaginaire ou réel ainsi que pour calculer le régulateur d'un corps quadratique réel. En particulier nous décrivons l'infrastructure de Shanks ainsi que la méthode sous-exponentielle de McCurley.
We improve the known upper bound of the dimension of an indecomposable unimodular lattice whose shadow has the third largest possible length, .