Re: qfbpowraw

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Bill Allombert wrote:
> ginv(Q) has a strange behaviour:
> If Q is real, it reduce its output, but not if Q is imaginary.

Assuming the input form is reduced, the output is reduced in both cases.
The difference with the real case is that it also works if the input is not
reduced...

> Also qfbpowraw(Q,-1) is implemented as ginv(Q) which is not
> correct if Q is real, because of the above.

Agreed.

> It seems that PARI * and ^ operators allow operation on quadratic
> forms but reduce them. I would personnaly prefer it does not reduce
> them.

Coefficient explosion would occur for ^.

qfb[comp|pow]raw would be dumped then ?

I don't like it.

> Also l*Qfb(a,b,c)=Qfb(l*a,l*b,l*c) could be supported.

True.

> Lastly, is it possible to get the SL2 matrix involved in the equivalence
> between two forms ? (I have written a GP script for that effect, but...)

Not from the current GP interface. In the real case, you have the distance
component, which is less useful, but remains small.

Cheers,

    Karim.
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