Primary ideals in Witt rings

DOI10.1016/0021-8693(85)90015-8zbMath0574.10028MaRDI QIDQ1063624

Robert W. Fitzgerald

Publication date: 1985

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-8693(85)90015-8

zbMATH Keywords

Witt ring; symmetric bilinear forms; formally real fields; primary ideals; primary decomposition; number of orderings; Sylvester signatures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

11E04: Quadratic forms over general fields

12D15: Fields related with sums of squares (formally real fields, Pythagorean fields, etc.)

13C05: Structure, classification theorems for modules and ideals in commutative rings

11E16: General binary quadratic forms

11E10: Forms over real fields

Related Items

Ideal class groups of Witt rings, Picard groups of Witt rings, Torsion-free modules over reduced Witt rings, Quadratic Forms

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