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Binary Quadratic Forms Exercises

This document contains exercises on classifying and working with binary quadratic forms. It asks the reader to: 1) Classify several quadratic forms as positive definite, negative definite, or indefinite. 2) Find the reduced form equivalent to a given quadratic form and determine the reduced forms of a given discriminant. 3) Determine if certain primes can be represented by particular quadratic forms and characterize which primes more generally can be represented. 4) Show conditions for when an odd prime can be represented by specific forms involving sums or differences of squares. 5) Determine the reduced forms of a given discriminant and the class number of that discriminant.

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Binary Quadratic Forms Exercises

This document contains exercises on classifying and working with binary quadratic forms. It asks the reader to: 1) Classify several quadratic forms as positive definite, negative definite, or indefinite. 2) Find the reduced form equivalent to a given quadratic form and determine the reduced forms of a given discriminant. 3) Determine if certain primes can be represented by particular quadratic forms and characterize which primes more generally can be represented. 4) Show conditions for when an odd prime can be represented by specific forms involving sums or differences of squares. 5) Determine the reduced forms of a given discriminant and the class number of that discriminant.

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MODULE 6.

BINARY QUADRATIC FORMS

Exercises

6.6

Exercises

1. Classify the following quadratic forms as positive denite, negative denite or indenite (i) 3x2 5y 2 (ii) 3x2 + 5y 2

(iii) x2 xy + y 2 (iv ) x2 3xy + y 2 2. Find the reduced form equivalent to 22x2 20xy + 5y 2 . 3. Determine all the reduced forms of discriminant 20. Hence deduce the class number of 20. 4. Characterize all the integers that can be represented by a quadratic form of discriminant 20. 5. Determine whether the following pairs of quadratic forms are equivalent: (A) 3x2 + 5xy + 4y 2 and 6x2 xy + y 2 . (B) 17x2 7xy + y 2 and 35x2 11xy + y 2 . (C) 2x2 9xy + 11y 2 and 2x2 5xy + 4y 2 . 6. Characterize all primes that can be expressed as x2 + y 2 . 7. Determine whether the primes 97 and 101 can represented by the form x2 xy +3y 2 . 8. Determine whether the primes 41 and 43 can be represented by q (x, y ) = 13x2 + 7xy + y 2 . Characterize all primes which can be represented by q (x, y ). 9. Show that an odd prime p can be represented by the form x2 + 2y 2 if and only if p is of the form 8k + 1 or 8k + 3. 10. Show that an odd prime p can be represented by the form x2 2y 2 if and only if p is of the form 8k 1. 11. Determine all the reduced forms of discriminant 23, and deduce that the class number of 23 is 3.

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