Etale homotopy and sums-of-squares formulas

DOI10.1017/S0305004108001205zbMATH Open1196.11059arXivmath/0609301OpenAlexW1985413600MaRDI QIDQ3514871FDOQ3514871

Daniel C. Isaksen, Daniel Dugger

Publication date: 23 July 2008

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper uses a relative of BP-cohomology to prove a theorem in characteristic p algebra. Specifically, we obtain some new necessary conditions for the existence of sums-of-squares formulas over fields of characteristic p > 2. These conditions were previously known in characteristic zero by results of Davis. Our proof uses a generalized etale cohomology theory called etale BP2.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0609301

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zbMATH Keywords

etale cohomologyspectrasums of squaresgeneralized cohomology theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Étale and other Grothendieck topologies and (co)homologies (14F20) Generalized (extraordinary) homology and cohomology theories in algebraic topology (55N20) Sums of squares and representations by other particular quadratic forms (11E25)

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