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Mat. Sb., 2023 Volume 214, Number 5, Pages 18–68 (Mi sm9711)

A refinement of Heath-Brown's theorem on quadratic forms

S. G. Vlăduţab, A. V. Dymovcde, S. B. Kuksinfgc, A. Maiocchih

a Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, I2M UMR 7373, Marseille, France
b Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Kharkevich Institute), Moscow, Russia
c Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
d National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
e Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
f Université Paris Cité, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, IMJ-PRG, Paris, France
g Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia
h Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

Abstract: In his paper from 1996 on quadratic forms Heath-Brown developed a version of the circle method to count points in the intersection of an unbounded quadric with a lattice of small period, when each point is assigned a weight, and approximated this quantity by the integral of the weight function against a measure on the quadric. The weight function is assumed to be $C_0^\infty$-smooth and vanish near the singularity of the quadric. In our work we allow the weight function to be finitely smooth, not to vanish at the singularity and have an explicit decay at infinity.
The paper uses only elementary number theory and is available to readers with no number-theoretic background.
Bibliography: 15 titles.

Keywords: circle method, quadratic form, quadric, summation over quadric.

MSC: 11E20, 11P55

Received: 17.12.2021 and 29.12.2022

DOI: 10.4213/sm9711


 English version:
Sbornik: Mathematics, 2023, 214:5, 627–675

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