We study the relationship between the (min, max)-equivalence of posets and properties of their quadratic Tits form related to nonnegative definiteness. In particular, we prove that the Tits form of a poset S is nonnegative definite if and only if the Tits form of any poset (min, max)-equivalent to S is weakly nonnegative.
This is the authors' version of a work that was published in Linear Algebra Appl. 402 (2005) 135-142. We prove that over an algebraically closed field of characteristic not two the problems of classifying pairs of sesquilinear forms in which the second is Hermitian, pairs of bilinear forms in which the second is symmetric (skew-symmetric), and local algebras with zero cube radical and square radical of dimension 2 are hopeless since each of them reduces to the problem of classifying pairs of n-by-n matrices up to simultaneous similarity.
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