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Bilinear Algebra

Author : Kazimierz Szymiczek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351464205
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Bilinear Algebra written by Kazimierz Szymiczek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giving an easily accessible elementary introduction to the algebraic theory of quadratic forms, this book covers both Witt's theory and Pfister's theory of quadratic forms. Leading topics include the geometry of bilinear spaces, classification of bilinear spaces up to isometry depending on the ground field, formally real fields, Pfister forms, the Witt ring of an arbitrary field (characteristic two included), prime ideals of the Witt ring, Brauer group of a field, Hasse and Witt invariants of quadratic forms, and equivalence of fields with respect to quadratic forms. Problem sections are included at the end of each chapter. There are two appendices: the first gives a treatment of Hasse and Witt invariants in the language of Steinberg symbols, and the second contains some more advanced problems in 10 groups, including the u-invariant, reduced and stable Witt rings, and Witt equivalence of fields.

The Algebraic and Geometric Theory of Quadratic Forms

Author : Richard S. Elman
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 9780821873229
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (732 download)

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Book Synopsis The Algebraic and Geometric Theory of Quadratic Forms by : Richard S. Elman

Download or read book The Algebraic and Geometric Theory of Quadratic Forms written by Richard S. Elman and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive study of the algebraic theory of quadratic forms, from classical theory to recent developments, including results and proofs that have never been published. The book is written from the viewpoint of algebraic geometry and includes the theory of quadratic forms over fields of characteristic two, with proofs that are characteristic independent whenever possible. For some results both classical and geometric proofs are given. Part I includes classical algebraic theory of quadratic and bilinear forms and answers many questions that have been raised in the early stages of the development of the theory. Assuming only a basic course in algebraic geometry, Part II presents the necessary additional topics from algebraic geometry including the theory of Chow groups, Chow motives, and Steenrod operations. These topics are used in Part III to develop a modern geometric theory of quadratic forms.

Algebraic Theory of Quadratic Numbers

Author : Mak Trifković
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461477174
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Algebraic Theory of Quadratic Numbers written by Mak Trifković and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-14 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By focusing on quadratic numbers, this advanced undergraduate or master’s level textbook on algebraic number theory is accessible even to students who have yet to learn Galois theory. The techniques of elementary arithmetic, ring theory and linear algebra are shown working together to prove important theorems, such as the unique factorization of ideals and the finiteness of the ideal class group. The book concludes with two topics particular to quadratic fields: continued fractions and quadratic forms. The treatment of quadratic forms is somewhat more advanced than usual, with an emphasis on their connection with ideal classes and a discussion of Bhargava cubes. The numerous exercises in the text offer the reader hands-on computational experience with elements and ideals in quadratic number fields. The reader is also asked to fill in the details of proofs and develop extra topics, like the theory of orders. Prerequisites include elementary number theory and a basic familiarity with ring theory.

Bilinear Algebra

Author : Kazimierz Szymiczek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351464213
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Bilinear Algebra written by Kazimierz Szymiczek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giving an easily accessible elementary introduction to the algebraic theory of quadratic forms, this book covers both Witt's theory and Pfister's theory of quadratic forms. Leading topics include the geometry of bilinear spaces, classification of bilinear spaces up to isometry depending on the ground field, formally real fields, Pfister forms, the Witt ring of an arbitrary field (characteristic two included), prime ideals of the Witt ring, Brauer group of a field, Hasse and Witt invariants of quadratic forms, and equivalence of fields with respect to quadratic forms. Problem sections are included at the end of each chapter. There are two appendices: the first gives a treatment of Hasse and Witt invariants in the language of Steinberg symbols, and the second contains some more advanced problems in 10 groups, including the u-invariant, reduced and stable Witt rings, and Witt equivalence of fields.

Algebraic Theory of Quadratic Forms

Author : Manfred Knebusch
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Algebraic Theory of Quadratic Forms written by Manfred Knebusch and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 1980 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Introduction to Quadratic Forms

Author : Onorato Timothy O’Meara
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 366241922X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Quadratic Forms written by Onorato Timothy O’Meara and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Algebraic Theory of Quadratic Forms

Author : Tsit-Yuen Lam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Algebraic Theory of Quadratic Forms written by Tsit-Yuen Lam and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Geometric Methods in the Algebraic Theory of Quadratic Forms

Author : Oleg T. Izhboldin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540409904
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Geometric Methods in the Algebraic Theory of Quadratic Forms by : Oleg T. Izhboldin

Download or read book Geometric Methods in the Algebraic Theory of Quadratic Forms written by Oleg T. Izhboldin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-02-07 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The geometric approach to the algebraic theory of quadratic forms is the study of projective quadrics over arbitrary fields. Function fields of quadrics have been central to the proofs of fundamental results since the 1960's. Recently, more refined geometric tools have been brought to bear on this topic, such as Chow groups and motives, and have produced remarkable advances on a number of outstanding problems. Several aspects of these new methods are addressed in this volume, which includes an introduction to motives of quadrics by A. Vishik, with various applications, notably to the splitting patterns of quadratic forms, papers by O. Izhboldin and N. Karpenko on Chow groups of quadrics and their stable birational equivalence, with application to the construction of fields with u-invariant 9, and a contribution in French by B. Kahn which lays out a general framework for the computation of the unramified cohomology groups of quadrics and other cellular varieties.

Binary Quadratic Forms

Author : Duncan A. Buell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461245427
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Binary Quadratic Forms written by Duncan A. Buell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first coherent exposition of the theory of binary quadratic forms was given by Gauss in the Disqnisitiones Arithmeticae. During the nine teenth century, as the theory of ideals and the rudiments of algebraic number theory were developed, it became clear that this theory of bi nary quadratic forms, so elementary and computationally explicit, was indeed just a special case of a much more elega,nt and abstract theory which, unfortunately, is not computationally explicit. In recent years the original theory has been laid aside. Gauss's proofs, which involved brute force computations that can be done in what is essentially a two dimensional vector space, have been dropped in favor of n-dimensional arguments which prove the general theorems of algebraic number the ory. In consequence, this elegant, yet pleasantly simple, theory has been neglected even as some of its results have become extremely useful in certain computations. I find this neglect unfortunate, because binary quadratic forms have two distinct attractions. First, the subject involves explicit computa tion and many of the computer programs can be quite simple. The use of computers in experimenting with examples is both meaningful and enjoyable; one can actually discover interesting results by com puting examples, noticing patterns in the "data," and then proving that the patterns result from the conclusion of some provable theorem.

Quadratic and Hermitian Forms

Author : W. Scharlau
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642699715
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Quadratic and Hermitian Forms by : W. Scharlau

Download or read book Quadratic and Hermitian Forms written by W. Scharlau and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a long time - at least from Fermat to Minkowski - the theory of quadratic forms was a part of number theory. Much of the best work of the great number theorists of the eighteenth and nineteenth century was concerned with problems about quadratic forms. On the basis of their work, Minkowski, Siegel, Hasse, Eichler and many others crea ted the impressive "arithmetic" theory of quadratic forms, which has been the object of the well-known books by Bachmann (1898/1923), Eichler (1952), and O'Meara (1963). Parallel to this development the ideas of abstract algebra and abstract linear algebra introduced by Dedekind, Frobenius, E. Noether and Artin led to today's structural mathematics with its emphasis on classification problems and general structure theorems. On the basis of both - the number theory of quadratic forms and the ideas of modern algebra - Witt opened, in 1937, a new chapter in the theory of quadratic forms. His most fruitful idea was to consider not single "individual" quadratic forms but rather the entity of all forms over a fixed ground field and to construct from this an algebra ic object. This object - the Witt ring - then became the principal object of the entire theory. Thirty years later Pfister demonstrated the significance of this approach by his celebrated structure theorems.

Quaternion Algebras

Author : John Voight
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030566943
Total Pages : 877 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Quaternion Algebras written by John Voight and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 877 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access textbook presents a comprehensive treatment of the arithmetic theory of quaternion algebras and orders, a subject with applications in diverse areas of mathematics. Written to be accessible and approachable to the graduate student reader, this text collects and synthesizes results from across the literature. Numerous pathways offer explorations in many different directions, while the unified treatment makes this book an essential reference for students and researchers alike. Divided into five parts, the book begins with a basic introduction to the noncommutative algebra underlying the theory of quaternion algebras over fields, including the relationship to quadratic forms. An in-depth exploration of the arithmetic of quaternion algebras and orders follows. The third part considers analytic aspects, starting with zeta functions and then passing to an idelic approach, offering a pathway from local to global that includes strong approximation. Applications of unit groups of quaternion orders to hyperbolic geometry and low-dimensional topology follow, relating geometric and topological properties to arithmetic invariants. Arithmetic geometry completes the volume, including quaternionic aspects of modular forms, supersingular elliptic curves, and the moduli of QM abelian surfaces. Quaternion Algebras encompasses a vast wealth of knowledge at the intersection of many fields. Graduate students interested in algebra, geometry, and number theory will appreciate the many avenues and connections to be explored. Instructors will find numerous options for constructing introductory and advanced courses, while researchers will value the all-embracing treatment. Readers are assumed to have some familiarity with algebraic number theory and commutative algebra, as well as the fundamentals of linear algebra, topology, and complex analysis. More advanced topics call upon additional background, as noted, though essential concepts and motivation are recapped throughout.

Introduction to Quadratic Forms over Fields

Author : Tsit-Yuen Lam
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821810952
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Quadratic Forms over Fields written by Tsit-Yuen Lam and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new version of the author's prizewinning book, Algebraic Theory of Quadratic Forms (W. A. Benjamin, Inc., 1973), gives a modern and self-contained introduction to the theory of quadratic forms over fields of characteristic different from two. Starting with few prerequisites beyond linear algebra, the author charts an expert course from Witt's classical theory of quadratic forms, quaternion and Clifford algebras, Artin-Schreier theory of formally real fields, and structural theorems on Witt rings, to the theory of Pfister forms, function fields, and field invariants. These main developments are seamlessly interwoven with excursions into Brauer-Wall groups, local and global fields, trace forms, Galois theory, and elementary algebraic K-theory, to create a uniquely original treatment of quadratic form theory over fields. Two new chapters totaling more than 100 pages have been added to the earlier incarnation of this book to take into account some of the newer results and more recent viewpoints in the area. As is characteristic of this author's expository style, the presentation of the main material in this book is interspersed with a copious number of carefully chosen examples to illustrate the general theory. This feature, together with a rich stock of some 280 exercises for the thirteen chapters, greatly enhances the pedagogical value of this book, both as a graduate text and as a reference work for researchers in algebra, number theory, algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, and geometric topology.

Quadratic and Hermitian Forms over Rings

Author : Max-Albert Knus
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642754015
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Quadratic and Hermitian Forms over Rings written by Max-Albert Knus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its birth (in Babylon?) till 1936 the theory of quadratic forms dealt almost exclusively with forms over the real field, the complex field or the ring of integers. Only as late as 1937 were the foundations of a theory over an arbitrary field laid. This was in a famous paper by Ernst Witt. Still too early, apparently, because it took another 25 years for the ideas of Witt to be pursued, notably by Albrecht Pfister, and expanded into a full branch of algebra. Around 1960 the development of algebraic topology and algebraic K-theory led to the study of quadratic forms over commutative rings and hermitian forms over rings with involutions. Not surprisingly, in this more general setting, algebraic K-theory plays the role that linear algebra plays in the case of fields. This book exposes the theory of quadratic and hermitian forms over rings in a very general setting. It avoids, as far as possible, any restriction on the characteristic and takes full advantage of the functorial aspects of the theory. The advantage of doing so is not only aesthetical: on the one hand, some classical proofs gain in simplicity and transparency, the most notable examples being the results on low-dimensional spinor groups; on the other hand new results are obtained, which went unnoticed even for fields, as in the case of involutions on 16-dimensional central simple algebras. The first chapter gives an introduction to the basic definitions and properties of hermitian forms which are used throughout the book.

Quadratic Forms

Author : Michael Barot
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030056279
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Quadratic Forms written by Michael Barot and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph presents combinatorial and numerical issues on integral quadratic forms as originally obtained in the context of representation theory of algebras and derived categories. Some of these beautiful results remain practically unknown to students and scholars, and are scattered in papers written between 1970 and the present day. Besides the many classical results, the book also encompasses a few new results and generalizations. The material presented will appeal to a wide group of researchers (in representation theory of algebras, Lie theory, number theory and graph theory) and, due to its accessible nature and the many exercises provided, also to undergraduate and graduate students with a solid foundation in linear algebra and some familiarity on graph theory.

Algebraic Theory of Quadratic Forms

Author : Manfred Knebusch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Algebraic Theory of Quadratic Forms written by Manfred Knebusch and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Quadratic Forms and Their Applications

Author : Eva Bayer-Fluckiger
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821827790
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Quadratic Forms and Their Applications written by Eva Bayer-Fluckiger and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume outlines the proceedings of the conference on 'Quadratic Forms and Their Applications' held at University College Dublin. It includes survey articles and research papers ranging from applications in topology and geometry to the algebraic theory of quadratic forms and its history. Various aspects of the use of quadratic forms in algebra, analysis, topology, geometry, and number theory are addressed. Special features include the first published proof of the Conway-Schneeberger Fifteen Theorem on integer-valued quadratic forms and the first English-language biography of Ernst Witt, founder of the theory of quadratic forms.

Basic Quadratic Forms

Author : Larry J. Gerstein
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821844652
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Basic Quadratic Forms written by Larry J. Gerstein and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The arithmetic theory of quadratic forms is a rich branch of number theory that has had important applications to several areas of pure mathematics--particularly group theory and topology--as well as to cryptography and coding theory. This book is a self-contained introduction to quadratic forms that is based on graduate courses the author has taught many times. It leads the reader from foundation material up to topics of current research interest--with special attention to the theory over the integers and over polynomial rings in one variable over a field--and requires only a basic background in linear and abstract algebra as a prerequisite. Whenever possible, concrete constructions are chosen over more abstract arguments. The book includes many exercises and explicit examples, and it is appropriate as a textbook for graduate courses or for independent study. To facilitate further study, a guide to the extensive literature on quadratic forms is provided.