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245		0	_aRecent advances in real algebraic geometry and quadratic forms : _bproceedings of the RAGSQUAD year, Berkeley, 19901991
260			_aProvidence, R.I. : _bAmerican Mathematical Society, _cc1994
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 405 p. : ill.)
490			_aContemporary mathematics _vv. 155 _x10983627
500			_aPapers resulting from a course held at the University of California at Berkeley, 199091 and the AMS Special Session on Real Algebraic Geometry and Quadratic Forms held in San Francisco, Jan. 1991, both comprising the special year dubbed RAGSQUAD.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505			_tD. W. Dubois and the pioneer days of real algebraic geometry ; On algebraic structures of manifolds ; On local uniformization of orderings ; Real algebraic geometry over _p _real closed fields ; On the reduction of semialgebraic sets by real valuations ; Orderings for noncommutative rings ; Nonexistence of analytically varying solutions to Hilbert's 17th problem ; A combinatorial geometric structure on the space of orders of a field. II ; Formal determination of polynomial consequences of real orthogonal matrices ; On valuation spectra ; Minimal generation of basic sets in the real spectrum of a commutative ring ; A new proof of the homogeneous Nullstellensatz for _p _fields, and applications to topology ; The compatible valuation rings of the coordinate ring of the real plane ; Estimates for parametric nonuniformity in representations of a definite polynomial as a sum of fourth powers ; On generators for the Witt ring ; On the trace formula for quadratic forms ; Quadratic forms with values in line bundles ; On annihilators in graded Witt rings and in Milnor's _K _theory ; An application of the theory of order completions ; Growth of the _u _invariant under algebraic extensions ; Remarks on Merkurjev's investigations of the _u _invariant ; On the canonical class of a curve and the extension property for quadratic forms ; Reduced norms and Pfaffians via BrauerSeveri schemes ; Matching Witts with global fields ; On Wittkernels of function fields of curves ; On the canonical class of hyperelliptic curves Tomas Recio and Carlos Andradas ; S Akbulut ; Carlos Andradas and Jesus M Ruiz ; Ralph Berr ; Ludwig Brocker ; Thomas C Craven ; Charles N Delzell ; M A Dickmann ; M J GonzalezLopez and T Recio ; Roland Huber and Manfred Knebusch ; M Marshall ; Albrecht Pfister ; M J de la Puente ; Gilbert Stengle ; Jon Kr Arason Richard Elman and Bill Jacob ; Eberhard Becker and Thorsten Woermann ; W Bichsel and MA Knus ; Martin Kruskemper ; Ka Hin Leung ; David B Leep and A S Merkurjev ; Jan Minac ; R Parimala and W Scharlau ; R Parimala and R Sridharan ; R Perlis K Szymiczek P E Conner and R Litherland ; Jonathan Shick ; V Suresh
650			_aForms, Quadratic
650			_aGeometry, Algebraic
700			_aJacob Bill
700			_aLam T Y
700			_aRobson Robert O
856			_uhttp://www.ams.org/conm/155/
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