Overview
- Compilation of both classical and new material on integral quadratic forms
- Presents results as obtained in a representation theoretical setting, free from that background
- Gathers algorithms and criteria to verify numerical properties of quadratic forms and their roots
- Includes over 170 exercises
Part of the book series: Algebra and Applications (AA, volume 25)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
This monograph presents combinatorial and numerical issues on integral quadratic forms as originally obtained in the context of representation theory of algebras and derived categories.
Some of these beautiful results remain practically unknown to students and scholars, and are scattered in papers written between 1970 and the present day. Besides the many classical results, the book also encompasses a few new results and generalizations.
The material presented will appeal to a wide group of researchers (in representation theory of algebras, Lie theory, number theory and graph theory) and, due to its accessible nature and the many exercises provided, also to undergraduate and graduate students with a solid foundation in linear algebra and some familiarity on graph theory.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Jesús Arturo Jiménez González received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from UNAM and Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo in 2015. His work focuses on representation theory of finite dimensional associative algebras.
José-Antonio de la Peña has a Ph.D. in Mathematics from UNAM (1983) and a Ph.D. from the Univeristy of Zürich (1985). His main areas of research are representation theory of algebras, where he has published more than 100 papers, and algebraic graph theory, where he has published more than 30 papers. He was Director of the Mathematics Institute at UNAM (1996-2004) and CIMAT, a mathematical research center from CONACYT (2011-2017). He is the author of several books, and 10 students have so far received doctoral degrees under his supervision.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quadratic Forms
Book Subtitle: Combinatorics and Numerical Results
Authors: Michael Barot, Jesús Arturo Jiménez González, José-Antonio de la Peña
Series Title: Algebra and Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05627-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05626-1Published: 07 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05627-8Published: 28 January 2019
Series ISSN: 1572-5553
Series E-ISSN: 2192-2950
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 220
Number of Illustrations: 111 b/w illustrations
Topics: Linear Algebra, Graph Theory, Combinatorics, Field Theory and Polynomials