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What is known about primes of the form $x^2-2y^2$?

David Cox's book Primes of The Form: $x^2+ny^2$ does a great job proving and motivating a lot of results for $n>0$. I was unable to find anything for negative numbers, let alone the case I am ...
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The Green-Tao theorem and positive binary quadratic forms

Some time ago I asked a question on consecutive numbers represented integrally by an integral positive binary quadratic form. It has occurred to me that, instead, the Green-Tao theorem may include a ...
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Set of quadratic forms that represents all primes

A SPECIFIC CASE: Any prime number can be classified as either $p \equiv 1 \pmod 3$ or $p \equiv 2 \pmod 3$. If $p = 3$ or $p = 1 \pmod 3$, then the prime $p$ can be represented by the quadratic form $ ...
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