Eisenstein series part of the primitive representations for even rank quadratic forms

Abstract

In this paper, we first investigate the relationship between the number of primitive representations of $n$ by quadratic forms and the number of non-primitive ones. We hence obtain a theorem to deal with the Eisenstein series part with quadratic Dirichlet character when deriving the formula for the number of primitive representations of an integer $n$ by even rank quadratic forms from the number of non primitive ones. Formulas for special cases are given as examples.