On the number of integral binary n$n$‐ic forms having bounded Julia invariant. Issue 4 (17th May 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bhargava, Manjul; Yang, Andrew
• Is Part Of: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. Volume 54:Issue 4(2022)
• Page Start: 1232
• Page End: 1248
• Publication Date: 2022-05-17
• Subjects: Mathematics -- Periodicals; 510
• DOI: 10.1112/blms.12625
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0024-6093

Abstract

Abstract: In 1848, Hermite introduced a reduction theory for binary forms of degree n $n$ which was developed more fully in the seminal 1917 treatise of Julia. This canonical method of reduction made use of a new, fundamental, but irrational SL 2 ${\rm SL}_2$ ‐invariant of binary n $n$ ‐ic forms defined over R $\mathbb {R}$, which is now known as the Julia invariant. In this paper, for each n $n$ and k $k$ with n + k ⩾ 3 $n+k\geqslant 3$, we determine the asymptotic behavior of the number of SL 2 ( Z ) ${\rm SL}_2(\mathbb {Z})$ ‐equivalence classes of binary n $n$ ‐ic forms, with k $k$ pairs of complex roots, having bounded Julia invariant. Specializing to ( n, k ) = ( 2, 1 ) $(n, k)=(2, 1)$ and (3, 0), respectively, recovers the asymptotic results of Gauss and Davenport on positive definite binary quadratic forms and positive discriminant binary cubic forms, respectively.