Diagonalize a form over the rationals to
where all the entries are Integers and , , ...are Relatively Prime to . Then the
-signature of the form (for ) is
where is the number of Antisquares. For , the -signature is Sylvester's
Signature.
See also Signature (Quadratic Form)
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1999-05-26