Compositions of quadratic forms

Publication date: 18 September 1992

Published in: De Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

similarity $K$-theory involutions Clifford algebras topology differential geometry Hopf construction Pfister factor conjecture $m$-fold multiplicative quadratic form composition of sums of squares hidden maps intercalate matrices theorem of Radon-Hurwitz

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fields related with sums of squares (formally real fields, Pythagorean fields, etc.) (12D15) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to number theory (11-02) Forms and linear algebraic groups (11Exx)

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