Linkage of quadratic Pfister forms

DOI10.1080/00927872.2017.1298776MaRDI QIDQ4594793zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Adam Chapman, Shira Gilat, Uzi Vishne

Publication date 24 November 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.03370

zbMATH Keywords

linkagePfister formsquadratic formsquaternion algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over general fields (11E04) Algebraic theory of quadratic forms; Witt groups and rings (11E81) Finite-dimensional division rings (16K20)

Abstract: We study the necessary conditions for sets of quadratic $n$-fold Pfister forms to have a common $(n-1)$-fold Pfister factor. For any set $S$ of $n$-fold Pfister forms generating a subgroup of $I_q^{n}F/I_q^{n+1}F$ of order $2^s$ in which every element has an $n$-fold Pfister representative, we associate an invariant in $I_q^{n+1}F$ which lives inside $I_q^{n+s-1}F$ when the forms in $S$ have a common $(n-1)$-fold Pfister factor. We study the properties of this invariant and compute it explicitly in a few interesting cases.

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