Mixed multiquadratic splitting fields

DOI10.1007/S00013-025-02135-9MaRDI QIDQ6965599zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Fatma Kader Bingöl, Adam Chapman, Ahmed Laghribi

Publication date 3 July 2025

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S00013-025-02135-9

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic 2excellent extensionquaternion algebrasymbol length

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over general fields (11E04) Algebraic theory of quadratic forms; Witt groups and rings (11E81) Characteristic (p) methods (Frobenius endomorphism) and reduction to characteristic (p); tight closure (13A35) Finite-dimensional division rings (16K20)

Review text

Let \(F\) denotes a field of characteristic 2. A field extension \(K/F\) is called excellent, if for any quadratic form \(\varphi\) over \(F\), the anisotropic part \((\varphi_K)_{an}\) of the quadratic form \(\varphi_K\) obtained by extending scalars to \(K\) is defined over \(F\), i.e., there exists a quadratic form \(\psi\) over \(F\) such that \((\varphi_K)_{an}\simeq \psi_K\). It is well-known, that, in any characteristic, any quadratic extension is excellent. The situation changes for quartic extensions. The main result of the paper under review provide examples of nonexcellent mixed biquadratic extensions. To be more precise, let \(A\) be a central simple algebra of degree 8 and exponent 2. If \(A\) contains a mixed biquadratic or simple purely inseparable quartic field extension of \(F\) which is excellent, then \(A\) decomposes into a tensor product of 3 quaternion algebras over \(F\). From this result we get examples of nonexcellent quartic field extensions.

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