An (almost trivial) local-global principle for the representation of -1 as a sum of squares in an arbitrary commutative ring

DOI10.1090/CONM/008/653177zbMATH Open0506.13014OpenAlexW4241920784MaRDI QIDQ4742902FDOQ4742902

Authors: Andreas W. M. Dress, Rudolf Scharlau, Ludwig Broecker 

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Ordered fields and real algebraic geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/008/653177

zbMATH Keywords

sum of squaresformally realreal ringlevel of ring

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Waring's problem and variants (11P05) Arithmetic rings and other special commutative rings (13F99) Fields related with sums of squares (formally real fields, Pythagorean fields, etc.) (12D15) Ordered rings (13J25)

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• On natural homomorphisms of Witt rings

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