Quadratic Forms and Their Applications.
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Providence :
American Mathematical Society,
2000.
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| Collection: | Contemporary Mathematics.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Contents
- Preface
- Conference lectures
- Conference participants
- Conference photo
- Galois cohomology of the classical groups
- Symplectic lattices
- Universal quadratic forms and the Fifteen Theorem
- On the Conway-Schneeberger Fifteen Theorem
- On trace forms and the Burnside ring
- Equivariant Brauer groups
- Isotropy of quadratic forms and field invariants
- Quadratic forms with absolutely maximal splitting
- 2-regularity and reversibility of quadratic mappings
- Quadratic forms in knot theory
- 1. The Seifert Matrix
- ""2. Blanchfield Duality""""3. Factorisation of Knots""; ""4. Cancellation of Knots""; ""5. Knot Cobordism""; ""6. Branched Cyclic Covers""; ""7. Spinning and Branched Cyclic Covers""; ""8. Concluding Remarks""; ""References""; ""Biography of Ernst Witt (1911�1991)""; ""Generic splitting towers and generic splitting preparation of quadratic forms""; ""Local densities of hermitian forms""; ""Notes towards a constructive proof of Hilbert's theorem on ternary quartics""; ""On the history of the algebraic theory of quadratic forms""
- Local fundamental classes derived from higher K-groups: IIIHilbert's theorem on positive ternary quartics
- Quadratic forms and normal surface singularities


