The discriminants associated to isotropy representations of symmetric spaces
Representation Theory
2010-08-10 v1
Abstract
We consider a generalized discriminant associated to a symmetric space which generalizes the discriminant of real symmetric matrices, and note that it can be written as a sum of squares of real polynomials. A method to estimate the minimum number of squares required to represent the discrimininant is developed and applied in examples.
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@article{arxiv.1008.1268,
title = {The discriminants associated to isotropy representations of symmetric spaces},
author = {Claudio Gorodski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.1268},
year = {2010}
}