Witt equivalence of function fields of curves over local fields

DOI10.1080/00927872.2017.1290101zbMATH Open1428.11074arXiv1601.08085OpenAlexW2962728428MaRDI QIDQ4594769FDOQ4594769

Murray Marshall, Paweł Gładki

Publication date: 24 November 2017

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

Abstract: Two fields are Witt equivalent if their Witt rings of symmetric bilinear forms are isomorphic. Witt equivalent fields can be understood to be fields having the same quadratic form theory. The behavior of finite fields, local fields, global fields, as well as function fields of curves defined over archimedean local fields under Witt equivalence is well-understood. Numbers of classes of Witt equivalent fields with finite numbers of square classes are also known in some cases. Witt equivalence of general function fields over global fields was studied in the earlier work [13] by the authors, and applied to study Witt equivalence of function fields of curves over global fields. In this paper we extend these results to local case, i.e. we discuss Witt equivalence of function fields of curves over local fields. As an application, we show that, modulo some additional assumptions, Witt equivalence of two such function fields implies Witt equivalence of underlying local fields.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.08085

zbMATH Keywords

function fieldslocal fieldsquadratic formsvaluationssymmetric bilinear formsAbhyankar valuationsWitt equivalence of fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over general fields (11E04) Quadratic forms over global rings and fields (11E12) Algebraic theory of quadratic forms; Witt groups and rings (11E81) General valuation theory for fields (12J20)

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