Abstract
This paper is partly a survey of known results on quadratic forms that are hard to find in the literature. Our main focus is a twisted form of a construction due to Bezout. This skew Bezoutian is a symplectic (resp. quadratic) space associated to a pair of reciprocal (or skew reciprocal) coprime polynomials of same degree. The isometry group of this space turns out to contain a certain associated hypergeometric group. Using the skew Bezoutian we construct explicit isometries of bilinear spaces with given invariants (such as the characteristic polynomial or Jordan form and, in the quadratic case, the spinor norm).
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