Accession Number:
AD0619642
Title:
NOTE ON QUADRATIC FORMS IN CHARACTERISTIC 2,
Descriptive Note:
Corporate Author:
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY PRINCETON N J
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1962-01-04
Pagination or Media Count:
10.0
Abstract:
It is proved that the pseudo-discriminant of a nondefective quadratic form over the field K with characteristic 2 is determined up to an element of the form LL-squared. It is proved that left and right multiplications are proper similarities in octave algebras of characteristic 2.