Quadratic Forms—Algebra, Arithmetic, and Geometry
About this Volume
Edited by: Ricardo Baeza, Wai Kiu Chan, Detlev W. Hoffmann and Rainer Schulze-Pillot
Publication Year
2009: Volume: 493
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-4648-3 (print); 978-0-8218-8172-9 (online)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/493
ReadershipTable of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Articles
- Roberto Aravire and Bill Jacob – $H^1(X,\nu )$ of conics and Witt kernels in characteristic 2
- Karim Johannes Becher and David B. Leep – Pythagoras numbers and quadratic field extensions
- Anne-Marie Bergé and Jacques Martinet – On perfection relations in lattices
- Siegfried Böcherer, Yumiko Hironaka and Fumihiro Sato – Linear independence of local densities of quadratic forms and its application to the theory of Siegel modular forms
- M. Dickmann and F. Miraglia – Representation of reduced special groups in algebras of continuous functions
- T. D. Browning and R. Dietmann – Solubility of Fermat equations
- A. G. Earnest and Robert W. Fitzgerald – Multiplicative properties of integral binary quadratic forms
- Lenny Fukshansky – Effective structure theorems for symplectic spaces via height
- Skip Garibaldi – Orthogonal involutions on algebras of degree 16 and the Killing form of $E_8$
- Stefan Gille – The first Zariski cohomology group of the Witt sheaf over a split simply connected simple algebraic group
- Paweł Gładki and Murray Marshall – On families of testing formulae for a pp formula
- Tomoyoshi Ibukiyama and Satoshi Wakatsuki – Siegel modular forms of small weight and the Witt operator
- Nikita A. Karpenko – On isotropy of quadratic pair
- Manfred Knebusch – Specialization of forms in the presence of characteristic 2: first steps
- Winfried Kohnen – Representation of integers by special positive definite integral quadratic forms
- Ahmed Laghribi and Pasquale Mammone – Hyper-isotropy of bilinear forms in characteristic 2
- David B. Leep – A historical view of the Pythagoras numbers of fields
- Michał Machura and Katarzyna Osiak – The extensions of $\Bbb R$-places and application
- Alexander S. Merkurjev – Essential dimension
- R. Parimala, V. Suresh and J.-P. Tignol – On the Pfister number of quadratic forms
- Rudolf Scharlau – Martin Kneser’s work on quadratic forms and algebraic groups
- Achill Schürmann – Enumerating perfect forms
- Nils-Peter Skoruppa – Reduction mod $l$ of theta series of level $l^n$
- Lynne H. Walling – On a reciprocity theorem of Gauss
- Takao Watanabe and Ryusuke Yoshimitsu – A bound of the number of reduced Arakelov divisors of a number field
