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  2. Binary quadratic form - Wikipedia

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    A quadratic form with integer coefficients is called an integral binary quadratic form, often abbreviated to binary quadratic form. This article is entirely devoted to integral binary quadratic forms. This choice is motivated by their status as the driving force behind the development of algebraic number theory.

  3. Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture - Wikipedia

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    This L-function is analogous to the Riemann zeta function and the Dirichlet L-series that is defined for a binary quadratic form. It is a special case of a Hasse–Weil L-function. The natural definition of L(E, s) only converges for values of s in the complex plane with Re(s) > 3/2.

  4. Quadratic unconstrained binary optimization - Wikipedia

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    The set of binary vectors of a fixed length > is denoted by , where = {,} is the set of binary values (or bits).We are given a real-valued upper triangular matrix, whose entries define a weight for each pair of indices , {, …,} within the binary vector.

  5. Quadratic form - Wikipedia

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    Quadratic forms occupy a central place in various branches of mathematics, including number theory, linear algebra, group theory (orthogonal groups), differential geometry (the Riemannian metric, the second fundamental form), differential topology (intersection forms of manifolds, especially four-manifolds), Lie theory (the Killing form), and ...

  6. Gauss composition law - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, in number theory, Gauss composition law is a rule, invented by Carl Friedrich Gauss, for performing a binary operation on integral binary quadratic forms (IBQFs). Gauss presented this rule in his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae , [ 1 ] a textbook on number theory published in 1801, in Articles 234 - 244.

  7. Reduction (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    In linear algebra, reduction refers to applying simple rules to a series of equations or matrices to change them into a simpler form. In the case of matrices, the process involves manipulating either the rows or the columns of the matrix and so is usually referred to as row-reduction or column-reduction, respectively.

  8. Linear equation - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, every line is the set of all solutions of a linear equation. The phrase "linear equation" takes its origin in this correspondence between lines and equations: a linear equation in two variables is an equation whose solutions form a line. If b ≠ 0, the line is the graph of the function of x that has been defined in the preceding ...

  9. Quadratic programming - Wikipedia

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    Quadratic programming (QP) is the process of solving certain mathematical optimization problems involving quadratic functions. Specifically, one seeks to optimize (minimize or maximize) a multivariate quadratic function subject to linear constraints on the variables. Quadratic programming is a type of nonlinear programming.