Algebras with scalar involution revisited (Q649843)

In the present paper, the author continues McCrimmon's work in a different direction. In Section 1, ``Conic algebras'', he establishes several basic facts on exterior products and formal directions of multilinear maps. Then, the author deal with constructions of conic algebras. Section 2 is the canonical 3-form of a conic algebra, Section 3 is coordinates for conic algebras, Section 4 is algebras with scalar involution, and the final section 5 is extending the theory to an arbitrary base scheme.