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In number theory, a branch of mathematics, Ramanujan's ternary quadratic form is the algebraic expression x 2 + y 2 + 10z 2 with integral values for x, y and z. [1] [2] Srinivasa Ramanujan considered this expression in a footnote in a paper [3] published in 1916 and briefly discussed the representability of integers in this form.
An integral quadratic form has integer coefficients, such as x 2 + xy + y 2; equivalently, given a lattice Λ in a vector space V (over a field with characteristic 0, such as Q or R), a quadratic form Q is integral with respect to Λ if and only if it is integer-valued on Λ, meaning Q(x, y) ∈ Z if x, y ∈ Λ.
The catalecticant of a ternary quartic is the resultant of its 6 second partial derivatives. It vanishes when the ternary quartic can be written as a sum of five 4th powers of linear forms. See also
1. A contravariant of a ternary form, giving the equation of a dual curve. (Elliott 1895, p.400) reciprocity Exchanging the degree of a form with the degree of an invariant. For example, Hermite's law of reciprocity states that the degree p invariants of a form of degree n correspond to the degree n invariants of a form of degree p.
This symbolic representation can be made concrete with a slight abuse of notation (using the same notation to denote the object as well as the equation defining the object.) Thinking of , say, as a ternary quadratic form, then = is the equation of the "conic ".
Ramanujan's ternary quadratic form; S. ... Quadratic form (statistics) Surgery structure set; Sylvester's law of inertia; T. Tensor product of quadratic forms; U. U ...
The oldest problem in the theory of binary quadratic forms is the representation problem: describe the representations of a given number by a given quadratic form f. "Describe" can mean various things: give an algorithm to generate all representations, a closed formula for the number of representations, or even just determine whether any ...
An integral quadratic form is a quadratic form on Z n, or equivalently a free Z-module of finite rank. Two such forms are in the same genus if they are equivalent over the local rings Z p for each prime p and also equivalent over R .