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Annihilating Polynomials and Positive Forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

D. W. Lewis
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.

Keywords

(1985 Revision) 11E0412E10.

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Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , 01 March 1992 , pp. 103 - 107
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1992

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