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Note On Extreme Forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

E. S. Barnes*
Affiliation:
University of Sydney, Australia
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Let ƒ(x1, … , xn) = Σaijxixj be a positive definite quadratic form of determinant D = |aij|, and let M be the minimum of f for integral x1, … , xn not all zero. The form ƒ is said to be extreme if the ratio Mn/D does not increase when the coefficients aij of f suffer any sufficiently small variation.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1955

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