The representation of positive integers as a sum of two squares is a classical problem studied by Landau and Ramanujan. A similar result has been obtained by Bernays for positive definite binary form. In joint works with Claude Levesque and Etienne Fouvry, we consider the representation of integers by the binary forms which are deduced from the cyclotomic polynomials. One main tool is a recent result of Stewart and Xiao which generalizes the theorem of Bernays to binary forms of higher degree.
This video is part of the Number Theory Web Seminar series.
