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The quadratic form positive definite on a linear manifold

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

S. N. Afriat
Affiliation:
Pembroke CollegeCambridge

Extract

1. Introduction. Necessary and sufficient conditions are established for a real quadratic form to be positive definite on a linear manifold, in a real vector space, explicit in terms of the dual Grassmann coordinates for the manifold.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1951

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