Compositions of Quadratic Forms / / Daniel B. Shapiro.

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]
©2000
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:De Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics , 33
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Physical Description:1 online resource (417 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 0 Historical Background
  • Part I Classical Compositions and Quadratic Forms
  • Chapter 1 Spaces of Similarities
  • Chapter 2 Amicable Similarities
  • Chapter 3 Clifford Algebras
  • Chapter 4 C-Modules and the Decomposition Theorem
  • Chapter 5 Small (s, t)-Families
  • Chapter 6 Involutions
  • Chapter 7 Unsplittable (σ, τ)-Modules
  • Chapter 8 The Space of All Compositions
  • Chapter 9 The Pfister Factor Conjecture
  • Chapter 10 Central Simple Algebras and an Expansion Theorem
  • Chapter 11 Hasse Principles
  • Part II Compositions of Size [r, s, n]
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 12 [r, s, n]-Formulas and Topology
  • Chapter 13 Integer Composition Formulas
  • Chapter 14 Compositions over General Fields
  • Chapter 15 Hopf Constructions and Hidden Formulas
  • Chapter 16 Related Topics
  • References
  • List of Symbols
  • Index