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Recent Advances in Real Algebraic Geometry and Quadratic Forms
About this Title
William B. Jacob, Tsit Yuen Lam and Robert O. Robson, Editors
Publication: Contemporary Mathematics
Publication Year:
1994; Volume 155
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-5154-8 (print); 978-0-8218-7746-3 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/155
MathSciNet review: 1260697
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Articles
- Tomás Recio and Carlos Andradas – D. W. Dubois and the pioneer days of real algebraic geometry [MR 1260698]
- S. Akbulut – On algebraic structures of manifolds [MR 1260699]
- Carlos Andradas and Jesús M. Ruiz – On local uniformization of orderings [MR 1260700]
- Ralph Berr – Real algebraic geometry over $p$-real closed fields [MR 1260701]
- Ludwig Bröcker – On the reduction of semialgebraic sets by real valuations [MR 1260702]
- Thomas C. Craven – Orderings for noncommutative rings [MR 1260703]
- Charles N. Delzell – Nonexistence of analytically varying solutions to Hilbert’s 17th problem [MR 1260704]
- M. A. Dickmann – A combinatorial geometric structure on the space of orders of a field. II [MR 1260705]
- M. J. González-López and T. Recio – Formal determination of polynomial consequences of real orthogonal matrices [MR 1260706]
- Roland Huber and Manfred Knebusch – On valuation spectra [MR 1260707]
- M. Marshall – Minimal generation of basic sets in the real spectrum of a commutative ring [MR 1260708]
- Albrecht Pfister – A new proof of the homogeneous Nullstellensatz for $p$-fields, and applications to topology [MR 1260709]
- M. J. de la Puente – The compatible valuation rings of the coordinate ring of the real plane [MR 1260710]
- Gilbert Stengle – Estimates for parametric nonuniformity in representations of a definite polynomial as a sum of fourth powers [MR 1260711]
- Jón Kr. Arason, Richard Elman and Bill Jacob – On generators for the Witt ring [MR 1260712]
- Eberhard Becker and Thorsten Wöermann – On the trace formula for quadratic forms [MR 1260713]
- W. Bichsel and M.-A. Knus – Quadratic forms with values in line bundles [MR 1260714]
- Martin Krüskemper – On annihilators in graded Witt rings and in Milnor’s $K$-theory [MR 1260715]
- Ka Hin Leung – An application of the theory of order completions [MR 1260716]
- David B. Leep and A. S. Merkurjev – Growth of the $u$-invariant under algebraic extensions [MR 1260717]
- Ján Mináč – Remarks on Merkurjev’s investigations of the $u$-invariant [MR 1260718]
- R. Parimala and W. Scharlau – On the canonical class of a curve and the extension property for quadratic forms [MR 1260719]
- R. Parimala and R. Sridharan – Reduced norms and Pfaffians via Brauer-Severi schemes [MR 1260720]
- R. Perlis, K. Szymiczek, P. E. Conner and R. Litherland – Matching Witts with global fields [MR 1260721]
- Jonathan Shick – On Witt-kernels of function fields of curves [MR 1260722]
- V. Suresh – On the canonical class of hyperelliptic curves [MR 1260723]