An abstract approach to higher level forms and rigidity

DOI10.1080/00927878808823588zbMath0644.10016OpenAlexW2013465788MaRDI QIDQ3786528

Colm Mulcahy

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00927878808823588

zbMATH Keywords

rigiditystructure theoremSOSspaces of signaturespreordered fieldshigher level forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over general fields (11E04) General binary quadratic forms (11E16) Forms over real fields (11E10)

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Valuations and higher level orders in commutative rings ⋮ A representation theorem for higher level reduced Witt rings ⋮ A simple system of axioms for spaces of signatures ⋮ Signatures of higher level on rings with many units ⋮ Higher level reduced Witt rings of skew fields ⋮ The Witt ring of a space of signatures ⋮ Holomorphy rings and higher level orders on skew fields ⋮ Higher level form schemes

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