On the geometry of symmetric and alternating forms

DOI10.1016/0021-8693(84)90074-7zbMATH Open0536.10015OpenAlexW2021266116MaRDI QIDQ791566FDOQ791566

Donald G. James

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-8693(84)90074-7

zbMATH Keywords

alternating formTits buildingscharacteristic not twoplacegeneralization of fundamental theorem for geometry of algebraic homogeneous spacesgeometries of type Cn and Dnmaximal isotropic subspacesnondegenerate symmetric forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry of classical groups (51N30) Quadratic forms over general fields (11E04) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

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