Normal forms for real quadratic forms

DOI10.1007/S00013-008-2925-0MaRDI QIDQ1018039zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bernhard Krötz, Henrik Schlichtkrull

Publication date 13 May 2009

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.0180

zbMATH Keywords

diagonalizationsemisimple Lie algebrareal quadratic form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple, semisimple, reductive (super)algebras (17B20) Forms over real fields (11E10)

Abstract: We investigate the non-diagonal normal forms of a quadratic form on R^n, in particular for n=3. For this case it is shown that the set of normal forms is the closure of a 5-dimensional submanifold in the 6-dimensional Grassmannian of 2-dimensional subspaces of R^5.

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