Canonical Equations For NonSingular Quadrics And Hermitian Varieties Of Witt Index At Least (n-1)/2 Of PG(n;K), n Odd

Keywords:

hyperbolic quadric, (pseudo-)elliptic quadric, Hermitian variety canonical equation,

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