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Two Remarks On Extreme Forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Martin Kneser*
Affiliation:
Universität Heidelberg
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1. Introduction. The following remarks concern two different parts of the theory of extreme quadratic forms. In §2, I shall give a new proof for the theorem of Voronoï (4), which asserts that a form is extreme if and only if it is both perfect and eutactic. (For the definitions see, e.g., Coxeter (2) or the text below.) There is indeed a comparatively simple proof in Bachmann's Zahlentheorie, IV, 2. For two reasons, however, it may not be useless to communicate another proof here.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1955

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