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On the reduction of positive quaternary quadratic forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

M. J. Cohn
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University of AdelaideAdelaide SouthAustralia5001.
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A fundamental region for the reduction of positive quaternary quadratic forms is exhibited. It is a convex polyhedral cone with twelve edges in the 10-dimensional space of quaternary quadratic forms.

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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1976

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