Regularity conjecture for cycles of reduced forms of discriminant a2+4a^2+4

About 12 years old · traced to

Let a cycle of reduced forms have caliber ll, discriminant a2+4a^2+4, and sum nn. Regularity conjecture. There is an integer r≥0r\geq 0 such that

n=(2r+1)l+1.n=(2r+1)l+1.

If r>0r>0, the cycle consists of imprimitive forms, meaning that the greatest common divisor of the coefficients of each form is greater than 11. These conjectured regularities arise from computational evidence concerning cycles with fixed sum; the source does not provide a proof or resolution.

References

Primary source

Barry R. Smith, “Reducing quadratic forms by kneading sequences”, arXiv:1408.4631 (2014).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.