A local-global principle for algebras with involution and Hermitian forms.

DOI10.1007/s00209-003-0490-6zbMath1092.16011OpenAlexW2148982725MaRDI QIDQ1407782

David W. Lewis, Thomas Unger

Publication date: 21 September 2003

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00209-003-0490-6

zbMATH Keywords

Hermitian formsorderingscentral simple algebrastrace formscentral division algebrasWitt groupsanti-automorphismshyperbolic involutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphisms and endomorphisms (16W20) Rings with involution; Lie, Jordan and other nonassociative structures (16W10) Bilinear and Hermitian forms (11E39) Finite-dimensional division rings (16K20)

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