Rainer Schulze-PillotAffiliation: Saarland University, Saarbruecken Email: schulzep@math.uni-sb.de Title Of Talk: Representation of quadratic forms URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.2158 SLIDES: PDF Abstract: We discuss the recent theorem of Ellenberg and Venkatesh on representation of integral quadratic forms by integral positive definite quadratic forms. We compare it with previous results which use arithmetic methods or analytic methods. We show that it is valid under weaker conditions on the represented form than those originally used and obtain some corollaries.
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