A theorem of Hurwitz and Radon and orthogonal projective modules
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Abstract:
We find the maximum number of orthogonal skew-symmetric anticommuting integer matrices of order n for each natural number n and relate this to finding free direct summands of certain generic projective modules.References
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- © Copyright 1974 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (1974), 51-56
- MSC: Primary 13C10; Secondary 15A36
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1974-0332764-4
- MathSciNet review: 0332764