On symplectic transformations

Autor: Springer, T A
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Zdroj: Indagationes Mathematicae Volume 33, Issue 1, January 2022, Pages 279-302
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1016/j.indag.2021.12.003
Popis: This is an English translation, prepared by Wilberd van der Kallen, of the 1951 thesis by T.A. Springer. In this thesis Springer studied the classification of conjugacy classes in the symplectic group $Sp_n(K)$, where the commutative field $K$ is of characteristic different from 2. He finds that each conjugacy class is characterized by a system of invariants. These invariants are first of all -- as in the case of the general linear group -- irreducible polynomials and systems of non-negative integers, but secondly also equivalence classes of certain Hermitian forms and of certain quadratic forms. Original Dutch title: Over symplectische transformaties.
Comment: 25 pages. To appear in Indagationes Mathematicae. Prepared and edited by Wilberd van der Kallen
Databáze: arXiv