Real fields, valuations, and quadratic forms

DOI10.1007/s00229-012-0597-3zbMath1348.11029MaRDI QIDQ2376348

Karim Johannes Becher, David B. Leep

Publication date: 21 June 2013

Published in: Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00229-012-0597-3

zbMATH Keywords

\(u\)-invariant; quadratic form; Pythagoras number; valuation; formally real field; stability index; length of a field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

11E04: Quadratic forms over general fields

11E81: Algebraic theory of quadratic forms; Witt groups and rings

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

12F20: Transcendental field extensions

12J10: Valued fields

11E10: Forms over real fields

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