On trace forms of Hilbertian fields

DOI10.1007/BF02566769MaRDI QIDQ1113929zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Krüskemper, Winfried Scharlau

Publication date 1988

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/140124

zbMATH Keywords

Hilbert's irreducibility theoremHilbertian fieldquadratic formseparable field extensiontrace formsWitt equivalence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over general fields (11E04) General binary quadratic forms (11E16) Separable extensions, Galois theory (12F10)

Review text

A quadratic form over a field K is called positive if its signature is nonnegative for every possible ordering of the field K; and it is called algebraic if it is Witt equivalent to the trace form of an algebraic extension L of K. The authors consider the question of when positive forms are algebraic. Suppose K has the property that whenever a polynomial f(T,X) over K in indeterminates T and X is irreducible as a polynomial in X over K(T), then there exists an element \(\beta\) of K such that f(\(\beta\),X) is an irreducible polynomial in X over K. It is proved that the form \(\delta X^ 2\) is algebraic for any element \(\delta\) of K which is positive for every possible ordering of K. This theorem is combined with a theorem by \textit{W. C. Waterhouse} [Arch. Math. 47, 229-231 (1986; Zbl 0607.10013)] to give many special cases in which positive forms are algebraic.

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