Symbol length in the Brauer group of a field

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Abstract: We bound the symbol length of elements in the Brauer group of a field K containing a Cm field (for example any field containing an algebraically closed field or a finite field), and solve the local exponent-index problem for a Cm field F. In particular, for a Cm field F, we show that every F central simple algebra of exponent pt is similar to the tensor product of at most len(pt,F)leqt(pm11) symbol algebras of degree pt. We then use this bound on the symbol length to show that the index of such algebras is bounded by (pt)(pm11), which in turn gives a bound for any algebra of exponent n via the primary decomposition. Finally for a field K containing a Cm field F, we show that every F central simple algebra of exponent pt and degree ps is similar to the tensor product of at most len(pt,ps,K)leqlen(pt,L) symbol algebras of degree pt, where L is a Cm+edL(A)+pst1 field.









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