Representation by Integral Quadratic Forms - a Survey
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An integral symmetric matrix S = (sij) ∈ M sym m (Z) with sii ∈ 2Z gives rise to an integral quadratic form q(x) = 12 xSx on Z. If S is positive definite, the number r(q, t) of solutions x ∈ Z of the equation q(x) = t is finite, and it is one of the classical tasks of number theory to study the qualitative question which numbers t are represented by q or the quantitative problem to determine the number r(q, t) of representations of t by q either exactly or asymptotically.
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