TY - JOUR AU - Fernando Galván, José Francisco AU - Ruiz Sancho, Jesús María AU - Scheiderer, Claus PY - 2006 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50666 T2 - UCM GT preprint AB - Let A = k[y] be the polynomial ring in one single variable y over a field k. We discuss the number of squares needed to represent sums of squares of linear forms with coefficients in the ring A. We use quaternions to obtain bounds when the Pythagoras... LA - eng M2 - 1 KW - Pythagoras number KW - Pfister bound KW - quaternions TI - Sums of squares of linear forms: the quaternions approach TY - journal article ER -