A conjecture of G. L. Watson asserts that the two-sided infimum of the values of a non-homogeneous real indefinite quadratic form in \(n\) variables, obtained when the variables range over all integral values, is an invariant under the signature modulo 8. There is an analogous conjecture by Bambah,
Values of quadratic forms
โ Scribed by S. Raghavan
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 430 KB
- Volume
- 30
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0010-3640
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