Divided powers in the Witt ring of symmetric bilinear forms

DOI10.2140/AKT.2023.8.275zbMATH Open1526.11014arXiv2209.08634MaRDI QIDQ6156900FDOQ6156900

Authors: Burt Totaro 

Publication date: 19 June 2023

Published in: Annals of \(K\)-Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Witt ring of quadratic forms over a field has divided power operations. On the other hand, it follows from Garibaldi-Merkurjev-Serre's work on cohomological invariants that all operations on the Witt ring are linear combinations of exterior powers. We find the explicit formula for the divided powers as a linear combination of exterior powers. The coefficients involve the ``tangent numbers, related to Bernoulli numbers. The divided powers on the Witt ring give another construction of the divided powers on Milnor K-theory modulo 2.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.08634

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zbMATH Keywords

Witt ringsymmetric bilinear formsdivided power operations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bernoulli and Euler numbers and polynomials (11B68) Algebraic theory of quadratic forms; Witt groups and rings (11E81) Higher symbols, Milnor (K)-theory (19D45)

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