Subsections
[Cr:4, Lc:3, Tt:1, Lb:0]
- The general and special linear groups.
- Bilinear forms and associated notions.
- Alternating forms and symplectic groups.
- Quadratic forms and orthogonal groups. Witt’s cancellation and extension theorems. Cartan-Dieudonne theorem. Associated simple groups.
- Structure of Clifford algebras and spin groups.
- Hermitian forms and unitary groups.
- Compact real forms of the classical groups, associated Lie algebras and Weyl groups.
- Composition algebras and principle of triality.
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