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arxiv: 0805.0180 · v1 · submitted 2008-05-02 · 🧮 math.RT · math.AG

Normal forms for real quadratic forms

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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.

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