Linear and multilinear algebra; matrix theory Bilinear and quadratic forms Concept
Signature of a quadratic form
Summary
The signature of a real quadratic form records the numbers of positive, negative and zero coefficients in any diagonal form of it.
Where this leads
17 pages build on this one.
- Rokhlin's theorem
- Pseudo-Riemannian manifold
- Hyperbolic law of cosines
- Hyperboloid model
- Poincaré group
- 11/8 conjecture
- Signature operator
- Lorentzian manifold
- Wigner's classification
- Atiyah–Patodi–Singer index theorem
- Indefinite orthogonal group
- Intersection form
- Lorentz group
- Representation theory of the Lorentz group
- Hirzebruch signature theorem
- G-signature theorem
- Hodge index theorem
Further reading
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| Writing | W1 stated |
| MSC | 15A63, 11E04 |
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