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Combinantal Forms of a Quadric Net Applied to Irreducible Concomitant Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

T. Scott
T. Scott
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Department of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh
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A complete system of combinantal forms (generalised and ordinary) of a pencil of quadrics fλ ≡ λ1f1 + λ2f2 can be chosen such that the coefficients of the various power products of λ1, λ2 in the former give a complete irreducible system of concomitants of the two quadrics f1, f2, and conversely. This result was proved by Todd (1), who used it in conjunction with Schur function analysis (2) (3) to derive the complete irreducible system of concomitants of two quaternary quadratics (4).

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , December 1961 , pp. 189 - 195
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1961

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