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Integral binary Hamiltonian forms and their waterworlds
2018
We give a graphical theory of integral indefinite binary Hamiltonian forms $f$ analogous to the one by Conway for binary quadratic forms and the one of Bestvina-Savin for binary Hermitian forms. Given a maximal order $\mathcal O$ in a definite quaternion algebra over $\mathbb Q$, we define the waterworld of $f$, analogous to Conway's river and Bestvina-Savin's ocean, and use it to give a combinatorial description of the values of $f$ on $\mathcal O\times\mathcal O$. We use an appropriate normalisation of Busemann distances to the cusps (with an algebraic description given in an independent appendix), and the $\operatorname{SL}_2(\mathcal O)$-equivariant Ford-Voronoi cellulation of the real …
On the Quadratic Type of Some Simple Self-Dual Modules over Fields of Characteristic Two
1997
Let G be a finite group and let K be an algebraically closed field of Ž characteristic 2. Let V be a non-trivial simple self-dual KG-module we . say that V is self-dual if it is isomorphic to its dual V * . It is a theorem of w x Fong 4, Lemma 1 that in this case there is a non-degenerate G-invariant alternating bilinear form, F, say, defined on V = V. We say that V is a KG-module of quadratic type if F is the polarization of a non-degenerate w x G-invariant quadratic form defined on V. In a previous paper 6 , the present authors described some methods to decide if such a module V is of w x quadratic type. One of the main results of 6 is the following. Suppose that Ž . G is a group with a s…
Einklassige Geschlechter totalpositiver quadratischer Formen in totalreellen algebraischen Zahlkörpern
1971
Abstract It is proved that totally positive quadratic forms with three or more variables and class number h = 1 exist only in a finite number of algebraic number fields. Each field allows only a finite number of such forms with bounded scale. To prove this, upper estimates for all local factors in Siegel's analytic formula are constructed by calculating explicitly numbers of solutions of quadratic congruences.
A Survey of Some Arithmetic Applications of Ergodic Theory in Negative Curvature
2017
This paper is a survey of some arithmetic applications of techniques in the geometry and ergodic theory of negatively curved Riemannian manifolds, focusing on the joint works of the authors. We describe Diophantine approximation results of real numbers by quadratic irrational ones, and we discuss various results on the equidistribution in \(\mathbb{R}\), \(\mathbb{C}\) and in the Heisenberg groups of arithmetically defined points. We explain how these results are consequences of equidistribution and counting properties of common perpendiculars between locally convex subsets in negatively curved orbifolds, proven using dynamical and ergodic properties of their geodesic flows. This exposition…
Quadratic characters in groups of odd order
2009
Abstract We prove that in a finite group of odd order, the number of irreducible quadratic characters is the number of quadratic conjugacy classes.