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Title: On some algebraic identities and the exterior product of double forms (English)
Author: Labbi, Mohammed Larbi
Language: English
Journal: Archivum Mathematicum
ISSN: 0044-8753 (print)
ISSN: 1212-5059 (online)
Volume: 49
Issue: 4
Year: 2013
Pages: 241-271
Summary lang: English
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Category: math
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Summary: We use the exterior product of double forms to free from coordinates celebrated classical results of linear algebra about matrices and bilinear forms namely Cayley-Hamilton theorem, Laplace expansion of the determinant, Newton identities and Jacobi’s formula for the determinant. This coordinate free formalism is then used to easily generalize the previous results to higher multilinear forms namely to double forms. In particular, we show that the Cayley-Hamilton theorem once applied to the second fundamental form of a hypersurface is equivalent to a linearized version of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem, and once its generalization is applied to the Riemann curvature tensor (seen as a $(2,2)$ double form) is an infinitisimal version of the general Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem. In addition to that, we show that the general Cayley-Hamilton theorems generate several universal curvature identities. The generalization of the classical Laplace expansion of the determinant to double forms is shown to lead to new general Avez type formulas for all Gauss-Bonnet curvatures. (English)
Keyword: Cayley-Hamilton theorem
Keyword: cofactor
Keyword: characteristic coefficients
Keyword: Laplace expansion
Keyword: Newton identities
Keyword: Jacobi’s formula
Keyword: double form
Keyword: Newton transformation
Keyword: exterior product
Keyword: Gauss-Bonnet theorem
MSC: 15A24
MSC: 15A63
MSC: 15A75
MSC: 15Axx
MSC: 53B20
idZBL: Zbl 1299.53043
idMR: MR3159313
DOI: 10.5817/AM2013-4-241
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Date available: 2014-01-16T11:14:07Z
Last updated: 2015-03-19
Stable URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10338.dmlcz/143549
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