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Unimodular reduction of a discriminant-minus-four form to two squares

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The identity
5x2+16xy+13y2=(x+2y)2+(2x+3y)2
(1)
comes from an integer change-of-variable matrix of determinant −1. It therefore preserves the set of integers represented and reduces the form to u2+v2.

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