Pythagorean *-fields

DOI10.1006/JABR.1999.8149MaRDI QIDQ1972047zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tara L. Smith, Thomas Craven

Publication date 13 August 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jabr.1999.8149

zbMATH Keywords

Baer orderingsformally real \(S\)-fieldformally real strongly Pythagorean \(*\)-fieldsHermitian formssignaturespace of orderingsstrongly Pythagorean division ringstotal semisignature mappingsvaluationweakly isotopic formsWitt groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bilinear and Hermitian forms (11E39) Algebraic theory of quadratic forms; Witt groups and rings (11E81) Fields related with sums of squares (formally real fields, Pythagorean fields, etc.) (12D15) Skew fields, division rings (12E15) Ordered fields (12J15)

Review text

In a recent paper [J. Algebra 216, 86-104 (1999; Zbl 0933.11020)] the authors examined Baer-orderings and the stronger notion of \(*\)-orderings on division rings with involution \(*\), as well as \(*\)-Pythagorean and strongly Pythagorean divison rings and the more general \(S\)-fields. The main results are the following: The extension theorem (2.4) describes the condition under which a Baer-ordering extends from \(D_1\) to \(D_2\) if \((D_2,*)\) is an \(S\)-field and \((D_1,*)\) its subfield. -- Theorem 2.5 is a characterization of weakly isotropic forms of a formally real \(S\)-field. -- In Theorem 2.6 the authors describe the formally real strongly Pythagorean \(*\)-fields by means of the total semisignature mapping. -- Moreover, the authors give various examples of strongly Pythagorean \(*\)-fields and their properties (3.5). Finally they describe the kernels of the semisignature homomorphisms associated to Baer-orderings.

Recommendations

• Weak \(*\)-orderings on \(*\)-fields
• Baer ordered *-fields of the first kind
• Weakly *-ordered *-fields
• Strong ordering of *-fields
• Extension of orderings on *-fields

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