Forms permitting composition
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R.D Schafer
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Article
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1970
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Elsevier Science
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English
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In this paper we report, in elementary terms, on the old problem of forms permitting composition, that is, forms N on an algebra which satisfy N(a6) = N(a) N(b), and how this problem has been generalized and completely solved in recent work by K. McCrimmon. $1. Let F be any field. We denote by F, t