Quadratic Forms and Equivalence

  1. Definitions of Quadratic Forms over a ring, and expression in terms of matrices
  2. Quadratic forms over a field
  3. Orthogonal decomposition
  4. Isotropic/anisotropic subspaces and hyperbolic planes
  5. Witt's theorem
  6. Uniqueness up to isomorphism of the anisotropic subspace

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Created by F.G. Garvan (fgarvan@math.ufl.edu) on Friday, February 27, 2009.
Last update made Fri Feb 27 22:49:33 EST 2009.

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