TY - BOOK AU - Knus,Max-Albert ED - American Mathematical Society (Providence), TI - The book of involutions T2 - Colloquium publications SN - 0-8218-0904-0 PY - 1998/// CY - [Providence] PB - American Mathematical Society KW - Grupos lineales algebraicos KW - Estructuras hermitianas KW - Homología, Teoría de KW - Galois, Teoría de N2 - INDICE: INVOLUTIONS AND HERMITIAN FORMS. Central simple algebras. Involutions. Existence of involutions. Hermitian forms. Quadratic forms. INVARIANTS OF EVOLUTIONS. The discriminant. The Clifford algebra. The Clifford bimodule. The discriminant algebra. Trace form invariants. SIMILITUDES. General properties. Quadratic pairs. Unitary involutions. ALGEBRAS OF DEGREE FOUR. Exceptional isomorphisms. Biquaternion algebras. Whitehead groups. ALGEBRAS OF DEGREE THREE. Etale and galois algebras. Central simple algebras of degree three. ALGEBRAIC GROUPS. Hopf algebras and group schemes. The lie algebra and smoothness. Factor groups. Automorphism groups of al... Etc ER -