Timeline for quadratic forms over fields of characteristic 2
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| Mar 21, 2012 at 9:45 | comment | added | Tom De Medts | I added the obvious tag "quadratic-forms". | |
| Mar 21, 2012 at 9:45 | history | edited | Tom De Medts |
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| Mar 21, 2012 at 9:44 | answer | added | Tom De Medts | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 21, 2012 at 0:07 | answer | added | Peter Arndt | timeline score: 20 | |
| Mar 20, 2012 at 15:33 | answer | added | Charles Matthews | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 20, 2012 at 13:53 | comment | added | stankewicz | While indeed you could have put more work into this question, I feel obligated to mention that maybe the biggest tool in the study of quadratic forms over a field of char $\ne 2$ is the bijection with certain bilinear forms. Over a field of char $=2$ there can be many quadratic forms to a single bilinear form. Therefore, one surprising place to start if you know some alg. geom is the theory of theta characteristics, where you fix the Weil pairing on an abelian variety as your bilinear form. | |
| Mar 20, 2012 at 13:04 | comment | added | Francesco Polizzi | Indeed. For instance, you could look at this: jstor.org/stable/2372942 | |
| Mar 20, 2012 at 13:02 | comment | added | Martin Brandenburg | What have you done so far? Typing the title into google gives a lot of results. So what? | |
| Mar 20, 2012 at 12:56 | history | asked | Rupert | CC BY-SA 3.0 |