Hereditarily quadratically closed fields

DOI10.1016/0021-8693(87)90231-6MaRDI QIDQ1118649zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard Elman, A. R. Wadsworth

Publication date 1987

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-8693(87)90231-6

zbMATH Keywords

Pfister formquadratic formquadratically closed field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over general fields (11E04) Fields related with sums of squares (formally real fields, Pythagorean fields, etc.) (12D15) Algebraic field extensions (12F05)

Review text

The authors prove for a finitely generated field extension K/F with \(tr.\deg_ FK=n\geq 1\) and char(F)\(\neq 2\) the equivalence of the following statements: (1) F(\(\sqrt{-1})\) and all its algebraic extensions are quadratically closed; (2) \(cd_ 2K(\sqrt{-1})=n\), where \(cd_ 2(F)\) means the cohomological 2-dimension of the absolute Galois group of the field F; (3) \(u(K(-1))=2^ n\) for \(u(F)=:\sup \{\dim (q)| \quad q\) is an anisotropic F-quadratic form with zero signature in each real closure of \(F\}\) ; (4) \(I^{n+1}K\) ( \(= the\) ideal in the Witt ring of K generated by the n-fold Pfister forms, i.e. forms of type \(\otimes^{n}_{i=1}<1,a_ i> )\) contains no \(n+1\)-fold anisotropic Pfister form having zero signature in each real closure of K; (5) \(I^{n+1}K\) is torsion-free; (6) min\(\{\) \(r|\) \(I^{r+1}K=2I^ rK\} \leq n\).

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