Solubility for families of norm equations coming from abelian number fields

Abstract

For $F \in \mathbb{Z}[s,t]$ a binary quadratic form which is irreducible over $\mathbb{Q}$, and $L$ an abelian number field with class number $1$, we obtain the order of magnitude for the number of values $F(s,t)$ which are a norm from $L$. Our result relies on the fundamental lemma of sieve theory and on geometry of numbers.