Annihilating polynomials for quadratic forms

DOI10.1155/S0161171201011279MaRDI QIDQ1348725zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors D. W. Lewis

Publication date 25 August 2002

Published in International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/49318

zbMATH Keywords

annihilating polynomialquadratic formshort surveyWitt ring

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic theory of quadratic forms; Witt groups and rings (11E81) Separable extensions, Galois theory (12F10) Frobenius induction, Burnside and representation rings (19A22)

Review text

The Witt ring \(W(F)\) of quadratic forms over \(F\) is integral in the sense that each element is annihilated by some monic polynomial with integer coefficients. In [Invent. Math. 90, 631-633 (1987; Zbl 0629.10017)] the author defined polynomials \(p_n(x)\) such that \(p_n(\varphi)=0\) in \(W(F)\) for any nonsingular form \(\varphi\) of dimension \(n\) over any field \(F\). These were the first examples of polynomials that annihilated particular classes of quadratic forms over \(F\). Since that time many examples of such polynomials have been found. The paper is a short survey of the main results on this subject.

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