Weakly isotropic quadratic forms under field extensions

DOI10.1007/S00209-010-0719-0MaRDI QIDQ641871zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Claus Schubert

Publication date 25 October 2011

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00209-010-0719-0

zbMATH Keywords

\(u-\)invariantalmost isotropicstability of a space of orderings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over general fields (11E04) Algebraic theory of quadratic forms; Witt groups and rings (11E81)

Review text

\(\widehat{u}\)-invariant of a formally real field \(F\) is defined to be the maximal dimension of anisotropic weakly isotropic quadratic form over \(F\). Quadratic form \(\varphi\) is said to be weakly isotropic if an orthogonal multiple \(m\varphi = \varphi \perp \cdots \perp \varphi\) is isotropic. The author studies behavior of the finiteness of \(\widehat{u}\)-invariant under field extensions. First, using a construction due to A. Prestel it is shown that there are fields with infinite \(\widehat{u}\)-invariant and a quadratic extension having any prescribed two-power \(\widehat{u}\)-invariant. Second, there are quadratic extensions with the \(\widehat{u}\)-invariant of the ground field equal to zero and infinite \(\widehat{u}\)-invariant of the extension field. Third, going down and going up of the finiteness of \(\widehat{u}\)-invariant is studied in finite extensions under some additional technical conditions. In particular, a going down result is proved for finite extensions \(K/F\) with a finite number of orderings of \(F\) provided all these extend to \(K\).

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