Can you find an invertible matrix P such that the matrix A written above is such that
P^t A P = D for some diagonal matrix D, i.e a diagonal matrix D such that A is congruent to that? By the Sylvester's Law of Inertia, such a matrix P exists if A is non-singular. Also, the signature of a symmetric non-singular matrix is invariant under congruences.

Surgery theory




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