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A Note an a Group Defined by a Quadratic Form

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Marvin Marcus
Affiliation:
The University of British Columbia, Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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In a recent series of papers [3,4,5], H. Zassenhaus considered the structure of those linear transformations T on real 4-space, R4, into itself that preserve the quadratic form . That is,

1.1

Define a function ϕ on R4 to the space M 2 of 2-square matrices over the complex numbers as follows:

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Let G2 be the vector space of matrices generated by all real linear combinations of

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1960

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