Etale homotopy and sums-of-squares formulas

DOI10.1017/S0305004108001205MaRDI QIDQ3514871zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Dugger, Daniel C. Isaksen

Publication date 23 July 2008

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

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

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)

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.

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