Biquaternion algebras and quartic extensions

DOI10.1007/BF02699188zbMath0801.11048MaRDI QIDQ1314734

David B. Leep, Tsit-Yuen Lam, Jean-Pierre E. Tignol

Publication date: 1 December 1994

Published in: Publications Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.numdam.org/item?id=PMIHES_1993__77__63_0

zbMATH Keywords

Galois cohomologycyclic algebrasbiquaternion algebrasrelative Brauer groupWitt kernelAlbert form\(n\)-Pfister formArason invariantcorestriction of central simple algebrasquartic 2-extensions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galois cohomology (12G05) Algebraic theory of quadratic forms; Witt groups and rings (11E81) Finite-dimensional division rings (16K20) Brauer groups of schemes (14F22) Twisted and skew group rings, crossed products (16S35) Quaternion and other division algebras: arithmetic, zeta functions (11R52)

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