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The Complete Irreducible System of Invariants of Three Quadrics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

T. Scott
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh
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The present account is an application of the principles of combinantal forms and Schur function analysis given in a previous paper (A), the references therein being henceforward denoted by A1 to A9, and the complete irreducible system of invariants of three quaternary quadrics will now be obtained from the complete system (not necessarily itself irreducible) derived by Turnbull (A5, p. 483). This latter system comprises 47 invariants, viz. 15, 1, 6, 6, 1, 15 and 3 members of total degrees 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 18 respectively in the coefficients of the quadrics. It will be proved that all of these are irreducible except for the one of degree 12 and the three of degree 18, the former being of especial interest as it is a real combinant and moreover, involves unusual features in the proof of its reduction and also in the derivation of the form expressing it in terms of irreducible invariants.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1961

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