Birational composition of quadratic forms over a local field

Let f(X) and g(Y) be nondegenerate quadratic forms of dimensions m and n, respectively, over K, char K ≠ 2. The problem of birational composition of f(X) and g(Y) is considered: When is the product f(X) · g(Y) birationally equivalent over K to a quadratic form h(Z) over K of dimension m + n? The solution of the birational composition problem for anisotropic quadratic forms over K in the case of m = n = 2 is given. The main result of the paper is the complete solution of the birational composition problem for forms f(X) and g(Y) over a local field P, char P ≠ 2.     

Lie algebras admitting a unique quadratic structure

We prove that any Lie algebra g over a field K of characteristic zero admitting a unique up to a constant quadratic structure is necessarily a simple Lie algebra. If the field K is algebraically closed, such condition is also sufficient.

Further, a real Lie algebra g admits a unique quadratic structure if and only if its complexification g^C is a simple Lie algebra over C     

Analysis of an algorithm for composition of binary quadratic forms

This note presents an algorithm which composes two reduced properly primitive binary quadratic forms of the same nonquadratic determinant D in O(M(log∥D∥)log log∥D∥) elementary operations.     

Finite dimensional spectral inverse problem for a bundle of hermitian quadratic forms

The paper is devoted to recovering the coefficients of a pair of Hermitian quadratic forms c(x, x) and (x, x) in a special basis, in which the matrix of the form c(x, x) is tridiagonal and the matrix of the form m(x, x) is diagonal. The form c(x, x) is positive definite, and the form m(x, x) is nondegenerate, but is not positive difinite in contrast with a well-known case. The data of the inverse problem include the spectrum λ₁...,λ_n of the bundle II_λ and the set of numbers ρ₁...,ρ_n connected with the main normalized elements of the bundle. A procedure for solving the inverse problem is described. The characteristic conditions for λ₁...,λ_n; are found that provide its solution. Bibliography: 5 titles. Translated fromZapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 186, pp. 33–36, 1990. Translated by T. N. Surkova.     

Infinite dimensional excellent rings

In this note, we prove that there exist infinite dimensional excellent rings.     

Infinite dimensional affine processes

The goal of this article is to investigate infinite dimensional affine diffusion processes on the canonical state space. This includes a derivation of the corresponding system of Riccati differential equations and an existence proof for such processes, which has been missing in the literature so far. For the existence proof, we will regard affine processes as solutions to infinite dimensional stochastic differential equations with values in Hilbert spaces. This requires a suitable version of the Yamada–Watanabe theorem, which we will provide in this paper. Several examples of infinite dimensional affine processes accompany our results.     

On quadratic forms

The present paper is related to the Jordan—von Neumann characterization of inner product spaces, to the Halperin problem concerning quadratic forms, to some results of the present author on quadratic and sesquilinear forms and to recently obtained results of C. T. Ng and of J. Vukman.Dedicated to Professor Otto Haupt with best wishes on his 100th birthday.     

Infinite flocks of a quadratic cone

In this article, we construct some infinite analogues of the Fisher flocks. We also consider maximal partial flocks which may be constructed in several ways. In particular, we show that any derivation of a flock inPG(3,K), forK a full field, produces either a flock or a maximal partial flock. We provide constructions which produce maximal partial flocks or maximal partial spreads.In memoriam, Giuseppe TalliniThis article was written while the authors were visiting the Ricco Institute during June of 1994 and was partially supported by Glasgow-Caledonian University. Also, the authors are indebted to Christian Boltanski,D — S, in the writing of this article.The authors also are indebted to the referee for helpful suggestions with regard to this article.     

Normal forms for real quadratic forms

We investigate the non-diagonal normal forms of a quadratic form on , in particular for n = 3. For this case it is shown that the set of normal forms is the closure of a 5-dimensional submanifold in the 6-dimensional Grassmannian of 2-dimensional subspaces of . Received: 27 June 2008     

无穷维动力系统

本文简要介绍了无穷维动力系统研究中的一些重要问题。     

Infinite dimensional duality and applications

The usual duality theory cannot be applied to infinite dimensional problems because the underlying constraint set mostly has an empty interior and the constraints are possibly nonlinear. In this paper we present an infinite dimensional nonlinear duality theory obtained by using new separation theorems based on the notion of quasi-relative interior, which, in all the concrete problems considered, is nonempty. We apply this theory to solve the until now unsolved problem of finding, in the infinite dimensional case, the Lagrange multipliers associated to optimization problems or to variational inequalities. As an example, we find the Lagrange multiplier associated to a general elastic–plastic torsion problem.