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On some equivalences of positive definite binary quadratic forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

A. Arenas
Affiliation:
Departament d'Àlgebra i Geometria, Facultat de Matemàtiques, Gran Via 585, 08007 Barcelona, Spain

Synopsis

We prove that for primitive positive definite binary quadratic forms having fundamental discriminant the concepts of genus and of ℚ-equivalence coincide.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1989

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