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Small Representations by Indefinite Ternary Quadratic Forms

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Number Theory and Related Fields

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We study nonhomogeneous Pythagorean triples, that is, solutions of the diophantine equation \({x}^{2} + {y}^{2} - {z}^{2} = D\) where D is fixed and non-zero. We are particularly concerned, for D large and positive, with counting the solutions having x, y, z, all small relative to D.

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JF was supported in part by NSERC grant A5123; HI was supported in part by NSF grant DMS-1101574.

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Friedlander, J.B., Iwaniec, H. (2013). Small Representations by Indefinite Ternary Quadratic Forms. In: Borwein, J., Shparlinski, I., Zudilin, W. (eds) Number Theory and Related Fields. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 43. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6642-0_7

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