Witt's Extension Theorem for mod Four Valued Quadratic Forms

DOI10.2307/2154354zbMath0766.15033MaRDI QIDQ4038459

Jay A. Wood

Publication date: 16 May 1993

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2154354

zbMATH Keywords

quadratic form; bilinear form; Arf invariant; coding theory; isotropic subspace; Witt index; Brown invariant; self- orthogonal code; Witt's extension theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

94B05: Linear codes (general theory)

11E39: Bilinear and Hermitian forms

15A63: Quadratic and bilinear forms, inner products

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