Generalizing the notion of rank to noncommutative quadratic forms.

DOI10.1090/CONM/592/11863MaRDI QIDQ2947481zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michaela Vancliff, Padmini P. Veerapen

Publication date 24 September 2015

Published in Noncommutative Birational Geometry, Representations and Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09016

zbMATH Keywords

rankdeterminantsminorssums of productsnoncommutative quadratic forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic and bilinear forms, inner products (15A63) Ordinary and skew polynomial rings and semigroup rings (16S36) Forms and linear algebraic groups (11E99)

Abstract: In 2010, Cassidy and Vancliff extended the notion of a quadratic form on n generators to the noncommutative setting. In this article, we suggest a notion of rank for such noncommutative quadratic forms, where n = 2 or 3. Since writing an arbitrary quadratic form as a sum of squares fails in this context, our methods entail rewriting an arbitrary quadratic form as a sum of products. In so doing, we find analogs for 2 x 2 minors and determinant of a 3 x 3 matrix in this noncommutative setting.

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