The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics Advance Access published online on June 10, 2008
The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, doi:10.1093/qmath/han017
A QUADRIC WITH ARITHMETIC PAUCITY

Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, 40 St George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2E4
Institut für Algebra und Zahlentheorie, Universität, Stuttgart, 70511 Stuttgart, Germany
Corresponding author. E-mail: vblomer{at}math.toronto.edu
Received 8 April 2008;
| Abstract |
|---|
The quadric given by the equations x
+x
+x
= y
+y
+y
, x1+x2+x3 = y1+y2+y3 has almost all its solutions with prime coordinates on the diagonals. This is shown in quantitative form. A similar statement holds for integral solutions whose coordinates can be written as the sum of two squares.

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