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Rational equivalence of primitive integral 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 compute the number of ℚ-classes of primitive integral binary quadratic forms of any discriminant and characterise when it coincides with the number of genera.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1991

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