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unimodular (Definition)

Working over a commutative ring, a bilinear form on a module $V$ is unimodular if it induces an isomorphism $V \to V^*$ . Here $V^*$ denotes the dual module of $V$ .




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See Also: dual module, dual module, dual space

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Cross-references: dual module, isomorphism, induces, module, bilinear form, commutative ring
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This is version 7 of unimodular, born on 2006-01-04, modified 2006-09-06.
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AMS MSC15A63 (Linear and multilinear algebra; matrix theory :: Quadratic and bilinear forms, inner products)

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