Normal forms for real quadratic forms
Representation Theory
2010-02-23 v1 Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
We investigate the non-diagonal normal forms of a quadratic form on R^n, 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 \R^5.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0805.0180,
title = {Normal forms for real quadratic forms},
author = {Bernhard Kroetz and Henrik Schlichtkrull},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.0180},
year = {2010}
}