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arxiv: 1905.04881 · v1 · pith:R6YI65AGnew · submitted 2019-05-13 · 🧮 math.NT · math.RA

On the minima of positive definite binary hamiltonian forms

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Let $A$ be a definite quaternion algebra over $\mathbb Q$, with discriminant $D_A$, and $O$ a maximal order of $A$. We show that the minimum of the positive definite hamiltonian binary forms over $O$ with discrimiminant $-1$ is $\sqrt{D_A}$. When the different of $O$ is principal, we provide an explicit form representing this minimum, and when $O$ is principal, we give the list of the equivalence classes of all such forms. We also give criteria and algorithms to determine when the different of $O$ is principal.

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