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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827432703321

Titolo

Diophantine methods, lattices, and arithmetic theory of quadratic forms : international workshop, Banff Iternational Research Station, November 13-18, 2011, Banff, Alberta, Canada / / Wai Kiu Chan [and three others], editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-8218-9503-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 1098-3627 ; ; 587 , 0271-4132

Classificazione

11Exx11Hxx11G5011D09

Disciplina

512.7/4

Soggetti

Linear algebraic groups

Forms, Quadratic

Number theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

In Memoriam --  Contents --  Preface --  Boris Venkov's Theory of Lattices and Spherical Designs --  Generalized Theta Series and Spherical Designs --  Strictly Regular Diagonal Positive Definite Quaternary Integral Quadratic Forms --  Heights and quadratic forms: Cassels" theorem and its generalizations --  On the positive integers  satisfying the equation  _{ }= ²+  Â² --  Algorithms for computing maximal lattices in bilinear (and quadratic) spaces over number fields --  adic Zeros of Systems of Quadratic Forms --  The Number of Function Fields with Given Genus --  Unique Factorization in the Theory of Quadratic Forms --  Golden lattices --  The extremal lattice of dimension 14, level 7 and its genus --Strict Periodic Extreme Lattices --Exceptional units and cyclic resultants, II --A note on generators of number fields --Voronoï’s reduction theory of GLn over a totally real number field --Some comments about Indefinite LLL.