The length and other invariants of a real field

DOI10.1007/s00209-010-0724-3zbMath1260.11026MaRDI QIDQ641864

Karim Johannes Becher, David B. Leep

Publication date: 25 October 2011

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-125222

zbMATH Keywords

\(u\)-invariant; quadratic form; Pythagoras number; Hasse number; effective diagonalization; length of a field; Mordell function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

11E25: Sums of squares and representations by other particular quadratic forms

11E04: Quadratic forms over general fields

11E81: Algebraic theory of quadratic forms; Witt groups and rings

12D15: Fields related with sums of squares (formally real fields, Pythagorean fields, etc.)

11E10: Forms over real fields

Related Items

Real fields, valuations, and quadratic forms

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