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Trudy Mat. Inst. Steklova, 2007 Volume 258, Pages 28–48 (Mi tm474)

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On Binary Quadratic Forms with the Semigroup Property

F. Aicardi, V. A. Timorina

a Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Stony Brook University

Abstract: A quadratic form $f$ is said to have the semigroup property if its values at the points of the integer lattice form a semigroup under multiplication. A problem of V. Arnold is to describe all binary integer quadratic forms with the semigroup property. If there is an integer bilinear map $s$ such that $f(s(\mathbf x,\mathbf y))=f(\mathbf x)f(\mathbf y)$ for all vectors $\mathbf x$ and $\mathbf y$ from the integer two-dimensional lattice, then the form $f$ has the semigroup property. We give an explicit integer parameterization of all pairs $(f,s)$ with the property stated above. We do not know any other examples of forms with the semigroup property.

UDC: 511.622

Received in October 2006

Language: English


 English version:
Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 2007, 258, 23–43

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