DATE: Tuesday, March 2 (2010), at 12:50pm
PLACE: LIT 305
SPEAKER:
Alexander Berkovich
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TITLE:
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Sum of three squares and binary quadratic forms
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ABSTRACT:
George Andrews used Bailey's Lemma to prove the following
identity
(Σ qn2)3
=
1+ 4 Σ qn/(1+ (-q)n) + ....
In this talk I will provide interpretation of this result in terms of
class numbers of binary quadratic forms.
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