Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy
P.O. Box 1-764, RO-70700 Bucharest, Romania
- Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bucharest, 1988-1993
- PhD, Ohio State University, 2001
- 1993-present: Researcher, Institute of Mathematics "Simion Stoilow" of the Romanian Academy
- 1994-2001: Teaching Assistant, Ohio State University, Department of Mathematics
- Number Theory
- Quadratic Forms
- Prize "Simion Stoilow" of the Romanian Academy, 2003
My most important results so far involve quadratic forms over dyadic local fields (finite extensions of $\Bbb Q_2$). To tackle problems in this area I introduced the notion of bases of norm generators (BONGs), which are a new way of describing the integral quadratic forms over dyadic local fields, complementary to the traditional Jordan decompositions. This new method allowed me to solve some old open problems, which previously had been solved only for nondyadic and 2-adic local fields (finite extensions of $\Bbb Q_p$ with $p>2$ and unramified finite extensions of $\Bbb Q_2$). These problems are:The solution to the first two problems above was given in my PhD thesis. The first one was published in [4]. The solution to the third problem was announced in [3]. So far I have submited a paper [5] containing a new version, in terms of BONGs, of O'Meara's classification theorem 93:28, which is a pre-requisite for a larger paper, containing the solution to the representation problem.
- Finding the integral spinorm norm group $\theta (O^+(L))$ of a quadratic lattice $L$.
- Finding the relative integral spinorm norm group $\theta (X(M/N))$ associated to the quadratic lattices $N\subseteq M$.
- Finding necessary and sufficient conditions such that a quadratic lattice represents another.