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Annihilating Polynomials and Positive Forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

D. W. Lewis*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics University College Dublin Belfield Dublin 4, Ireland
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Abstract

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The annihilating polynomials for trace forms, as discovered recently by Conner, are shown to also annihilate many other classes of positive quadratic forms over a field F provided that F satisfies suitable conditions.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1992

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