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Recent advances in real algebraic geometry and quadratic forms : proceedings of the RAGSQUAD year, Berkeley, 1990-1991

Title
Recent advances in real algebraic geometry and quadratic forms : proceedings of the RAGSQUAD year, Berkeley, 1990-1991 / William B. Jacob, Tsit-Yuen Lam, Robert O. Robson, editors.
Publication
Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, ©1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Jacob, Bill.
  • Lam, T. Y. (Tsit-Yuen), 1942-
  • Robson, Robert O., 1954-
  • AMS Special Session on Real Algebraic Geometry and Quadratic Forms (1991 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Description
viii, 405 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
Series Statement
Contemporary mathematics, 0271-4132 ; 155
Uniform Title
Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; v. 155.
Subject
  • Geometry, Algebraic
  • Forms, Quadratic
  • Algebraïsche meetkunde
  • Kwadratische vormen
  • Géométrie algébrique
  • Formes quadratiques
Note
  • 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.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
D.W. Dubois and the pioneer days of real algebraic geometry / Tomás Recio & Carlos Andradas -- On albegraic structures of manifolds / S. Akbulut -- On local uniformization of orderings / Carlos Andradas and Jesús M. Ruiz -- Real algebraic geometry over p-real closed fields / Ralph Berr -- On the reduction of semialgebraic sets by real valuations / Ludwig Bröcker -- Orderings for noncommutative rings / Thomas C. Craven -- Nonexistence of analytically varying solutions to Hilbert's 17th problem / Charles N. Delzell -- A combinatorial geometric structure on the space of orders of a field II / M.A. Dickmann -- Formal determination of polynomial consequences of real orthogonal matrices / M.J. González-Lopez and T. Recio -- On valuation spectra / Roland Huber and Manfred Knebusch -- Minimal generation of basic sets in the real spectrum of a commutative ring / M. Marshall -- A new proof of the homogeneous nullstellensatz for p-fields and applications to topology / Albrecht Pfister -- The compatible valuation rings of the coordinate ring of the real plane / M.J. de la Puente -- Estimates for parametric nonuniformity in representations of a definite polynomial as a sum of fourth powers / Gilbert Stengle -- On generators for the Witt ring / Jón Kr. Arason, Richard Elman, and Bill Jacob -- On the trace formula for quadratic forms / Eberhard Becker and Thorsten Wöermann -- Quadratic forms with values in line bundles / W. Bichsel and M.-A. Knus -- On annhilators in graded Witt rings and in Milnor's K theory / Martin Krüskemper -- An application of the theory of order completions / Ka Hin Leung -- Growth of the u-invariant under algebraic extensions / David B. Leep and A.S. Merkurjev -- Remarks on Merkurjev's investigations of the u-invariant / Ján Mináč -- On the canonical class of a curve and the extension property for quadratic forms / R. Parimala and W. Scharlau -- Reduced norms and Pfaffians via Brauer-Severi schemes / R. Parimala and R. Sridharan -- Matching Witts with global fields / R. Perlis [and others] -- On Witt-kernels of function fields of curves / Jonathan Shick -- On the canonical class of hyperelliptic curves / V. Suresh.
ISBN
  • 0821851543
  • 9780821851548
LCCN
93006377
OCLC
  • ocm28711046
  • 28711046
  • SCSB-9015464
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library