Orthogonal similarity and pairs of quadratic forms

DOI10.1016/0024-3795(95)90018-7MaRDI QIDQ1906765zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors William C. Waterhouse

Publication date 25 November 1996

Published in Linear Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0024-3795(95)90018-7

zbMATH Keywords

orthogonal similaritypairs of quadratic formsrational symmetric matricesseparable field extensionsymmetric bilinear formtrace form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over global rings and fields (11E12) Canonical forms, reductions, classification (15A21) Quadratic and bilinear forms, inner products (15A63)

Review text

Let \(L/K\) be a finite separable field extension and let \(W\) be a \(K\)-space with an endomorphism \(S\) such that \(L = K[S]\). For any \(L\)-bilinear form \(C\) on \(W\) the trace map \(\text{Tr} = \text{tr}_{L/K}\) provides us with a \(K\)-bilinear form \(B = \text{Tr} \circ C\) such that \(B(Sx, y) = B(x,Sy)\) for \(x,y \in W\). In the paper the author examines the inverse process, that is, he shows how to get (up to isometry) the form \(C\) when the form \(\text{Tr} \circ C\) is known. As a result he gets that the two known ways of classifying rational symmetric matrices under orthogonal similarity, first presented by \textit{S. Friedland} [Linear Algebra Appl. 192, 109-114 (1993; Zbl 0787.15011)] and the second by the author [Invent. Math. 37, 157-164 (1976; Zbl 0337.10015)], are in fact the same.

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