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Cone Preserving Mappings for Quadratic Cones Over Arbitrary Fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

J. A. Lester*
Affiliation:
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Let F be a non-singular metric vector space, that is, a vector space over a field F not of characteristic two, upon which is defined a non-singular symmetric bilinear form ( , ). For any a ϵ V, we define the cone with vertex a to be the set

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1977

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