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This chapter contains the basic theory. The main problem, namely the definition of a good discriminant for Hermitian modules, which was alluded to in the introduction, will be posed in §2 and solved in §3 – §5.
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Fröhlich, A. (1984). Involution Algebras and the Hermitian Classgroup. In: Classgroups and Hermitian Modules. Progress in Mathematics, vol 48. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6740-6_2
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