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The minimum determinant of Minkowski-reduced quinary quadratic forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

E. S. Barnes  and
D. W. Trenerry
E. S. Barnes
Affiliation:
The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5001, Australia
D. W. Trenerry
Affiliation:
The University of New South Wales, Broken Hill, 2880, Australia
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Abstract

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Minkowski established a lower bound for the determinant D of a Minkowski-reduced quadratic form in terms of the product of its diagonal coefficients aii (i = 1, …n). Oppenheim and Barnes found, for n = 3 and n = 4 respectively, the precise minimum of D in terms of the aii; in each case the minimum is a polynomial in the aii. Here it is shown that no such result exists when n = 5; however a polynomial in all,…, a55 is determined which gives the minimum of D when a55 is sufficiently large.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , June 1982 , pp. 405 - 411
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1982

References

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