Signatures of hermitian forms
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Unger (UCD)
Time: 4:00PM
Date: Wed 22nd September 2010
Location: Mathematical Sciences Seminar Room
Abstract
Let F be a formally real field, A a central simple F-algebra and σ an F-linear involution on A. I will describe how to compute signatures of hermitian forms defined over (A,σ) with respect to orderings on F and address a gap in the literature.
This is joint work with Vincent Astier.
(This talk is part of the K-Theory, Quadratic Forms and Number Theory series.)
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