Witt equivalence of function fields over global fields

DOI10.1090/TRAN/6898MaRDI QIDQ5369014zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 11 October 2017

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.00830

function fields global fields quadratic forms valuations symmetric bilinear forms Abhyankar valuations Witt 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)

Abstract: In our work we investigate Witt equivalence of general function fields over global fields. It is proven that for any two such fields K and L the Witt equivalence induces a canonical bijection between Abhyankar valuations on K and L having residue fields not finite of characteristic 2. The main tool used in the proof is a method of constructing valuations due to Arason, Elman and Jacob. Numerous applications are provided, in particular to Witt equivalence of function fields over number fields: it is proven, among other things, that for two number fields k and l the Witt equivalence between the fields k(x_1,...,x_n) and l(x_1,...,x_n) implies that k and l are themselves Witt equivalent and have equal 2-ranks of their ideal class groups.

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