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Periodicity of Clifford algebras and exact octagons of Witt groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

D. W. Lewis
D. W. Lewis
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Department of Mathematics, University College Dublin
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Exact octagons, i.e. circular eight-term exact sequences, have cropped up recently in a few places in the literature. Papers of the author [11], and implicitly [10], the book of M. Warshauer[14], and the notes [5], all contain exact octagons. The first three references involve octagons of Witt groups of quadratic and other kinds of forms, the last reference extending the octagons to the setting of L-groups, i.e. surgery obstruction groups.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 98 , Issue 2 , September 1985 , pp. 263 - 269
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1985

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