The discriminant of a decomposable symplectic involution.

DOI10.1016/j.jalgebra.2003.05.007zbMath1048.16007OpenAlexW2088054479MaRDI QIDQ1427415

Ahmed Serhir, Jean-Pierre E. Tignol

Publication date: 14 March 2004

Published in: Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2003.05.007

zbMATH Keywords

central simple algebrassymplectic involutionsorthogonal involutionsPfister factor conjecturediscriminants of involutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rings with involution; Lie, Jordan and other nonassociative structures (16W10) Quadratic and bilinear forms, inner products (15A63) Finite-dimensional division rings (16K20)

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