Recent advances in real algebraic geometry and quadratic forms : proceedings of the RAGSQUAD year, Berkeley, 1990-1991 / [electronic resource]
William B. Jacob, Tsit-Yuen Lam, Robert O. Robson, editors.
- Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c1994.
- 1 online resource (viii, 405 p. : ill.)
- Contemporary mathematics, v. 155 0271-4132 (print); 1098-3627 (online); .
- Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; v. 155. .
Papers resulting from a course held at the University of California at Berkeley, 1990-91 and the AMS Special Session on Real Algebraic Geometry and Quadratic Forms held in San Francisco, Jan. 1991, both comprising the special year dubbed RAGSQUAD.
Includes bibliographical references.
D. W. Dubois and the pioneer days of real algebraic geometry / On algebraic structures of manifolds / On local uniformization of orderings / Real algebraic geometry over $p$-real closed fields / On the reduction of semialgebraic sets by real valuations / Orderings for noncommutative rings / Nonexistence of analytically varying solutions to Hilbert's 17th problem / A combinatorial geometric structure on the space of orders of a field. II / Formal determination of polynomial consequences of real orthogonal matrices / On valuation spectra / Minimal generation of basic sets in the real spectrum of a commutative ring / A new proof of the homogeneous Nullstellensatz for $p$-fields, and applications to topology / The compatible valuation rings of the coordinate ring of the real plane / Estimates for parametric nonuniformity in representations of a definite polynomial as a sum of fourth powers / On generators for the Witt ring / On the trace formula for quadratic forms / Quadratic forms with values in line bundles / On annihilators in graded Witt rings and in Milnor's $K$-theory / An application of the theory of order completions / Growth of the $u$-invariant under algebraic extensions / Remarks on Merkurjev's investigations of the $u$-invariant / On the canonical class of a curve and the extension property for quadratic forms / Reduced norms and Pfaffians via Brauer-Severi schemes / Matching Witts with global fields / On Witt-kernels of function fields of curves / On the canonical class of hyperelliptic curves / Tom�as Recio and Carlos Andradas -- S. Akbulut -- Carlos Andradas and Jes�us M. Ruiz -- Ralph Berr -- Ludwig Br�ocker -- Thomas C. Craven -- Charles N. Delzell -- M. A. Dickmann -- M. J. Gonz�alez-L�opez and T. Recio -- Roland Huber and Manfred Knebusch -- M. Marshall -- Albrecht Pfister -- M. J. de la Puente -- Gilbert Stengle -- J�on Kr. Arason, Richard Elman and Bill Jacob -- Eberhard Becker and Thorsten W�oermann -- W. Bichsel and M.-A. Knus -- Martin Kr�uskemper -- Ka Hin Leung -- David B. Leep and A. S. Merkurjev -- J�an Min�a�c -- R. Parimala and W. Scharlau -- R. Parimala and R. Sridharan -- R. Perlis, K. Szymiczek, P. E. Conner and R. Litherland -- Jonathan Shick -- V. Suresh -- http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01370 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01371 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01372 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01373 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01374 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01375 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01376 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01377 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01378 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01379 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01380 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01381 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01382 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01383 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01384 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01385 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01386 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01387 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01388 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01389 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01390 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01391 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01392 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01393 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01394 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01395
Access is restricted to licensed institutions
Electronic reproduction.
Providence, Rhode Island :
American Mathematical Society.
2012
Mode of access : World Wide Web
9780821877463 (online)
Geometry, Algebraic.
Forms, Quadratic.
QA564 / .R43 1994
512/.74
Papers resulting from a course held at the University of California at Berkeley, 1990-91 and the AMS Special Session on Real Algebraic Geometry and Quadratic Forms held in San Francisco, Jan. 1991, both comprising the special year dubbed RAGSQUAD.
Includes bibliographical references.
D. W. Dubois and the pioneer days of real algebraic geometry / On algebraic structures of manifolds / On local uniformization of orderings / Real algebraic geometry over $p$-real closed fields / On the reduction of semialgebraic sets by real valuations / Orderings for noncommutative rings / Nonexistence of analytically varying solutions to Hilbert's 17th problem / A combinatorial geometric structure on the space of orders of a field. II / Formal determination of polynomial consequences of real orthogonal matrices / On valuation spectra / Minimal generation of basic sets in the real spectrum of a commutative ring / A new proof of the homogeneous Nullstellensatz for $p$-fields, and applications to topology / The compatible valuation rings of the coordinate ring of the real plane / Estimates for parametric nonuniformity in representations of a definite polynomial as a sum of fourth powers / On generators for the Witt ring / On the trace formula for quadratic forms / Quadratic forms with values in line bundles / On annihilators in graded Witt rings and in Milnor's $K$-theory / An application of the theory of order completions / Growth of the $u$-invariant under algebraic extensions / Remarks on Merkurjev's investigations of the $u$-invariant / On the canonical class of a curve and the extension property for quadratic forms / Reduced norms and Pfaffians via Brauer-Severi schemes / Matching Witts with global fields / On Witt-kernels of function fields of curves / On the canonical class of hyperelliptic curves / Tom�as Recio and Carlos Andradas -- S. Akbulut -- Carlos Andradas and Jes�us M. Ruiz -- Ralph Berr -- Ludwig Br�ocker -- Thomas C. Craven -- Charles N. Delzell -- M. A. Dickmann -- M. J. Gonz�alez-L�opez and T. Recio -- Roland Huber and Manfred Knebusch -- M. Marshall -- Albrecht Pfister -- M. J. de la Puente -- Gilbert Stengle -- J�on Kr. Arason, Richard Elman and Bill Jacob -- Eberhard Becker and Thorsten W�oermann -- W. Bichsel and M.-A. Knus -- Martin Kr�uskemper -- Ka Hin Leung -- David B. Leep and A. S. Merkurjev -- J�an Min�a�c -- R. Parimala and W. Scharlau -- R. Parimala and R. Sridharan -- R. Perlis, K. Szymiczek, P. E. Conner and R. Litherland -- Jonathan Shick -- V. Suresh -- http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01370 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01371 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01372 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01373 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01374 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01375 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01376 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01377 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01378 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01379 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01380 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01381 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01382 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01383 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01384 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01385 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01386 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01387 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01388 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01389 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01390 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01391 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01392 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01393 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01394 http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01395
Access is restricted to licensed institutions
Electronic reproduction.
Providence, Rhode Island :
American Mathematical Society.
2012
Mode of access : World Wide Web
9780821877463 (online)
Geometry, Algebraic.
Forms, Quadratic.
QA564 / .R43 1994
512/.74