Formally real fields with prescribed invariants in the theory of quadratic forms

DOI10.1016/0019-3577(91)90042-6MaRDI QIDQ810565zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors E. A. M. Hornix

Publication date 1991

Published in Indagationes Mathematicae. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0019-3577(91)90042-6

zbMATH Keywords

Clifford algebradivision algebraexamples of formally real fieldsHasse numbersquadratic formsu-invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over general fields (11E04) Forms over real fields (11E10) Fields related with sums of squares (formally real fields, Pythagorean fields, etc.) (12D15)

Review text

In 1989 A. Merkur'ev solved an old problem on the u-invariant constructing non-real fields F such that \(I^ 3(F)=0\) and \(u(F)=2n\), where n is any given integer \(\geq 1\). The author extends the ideas of Merkur'ev to provide the readers with examples of formally real fields \(F_ 1\) and \(F_ 2\) such that \(I_ t^ 3(F_ 1)=I_ t^ 3(F_ 2)=0\), the Hasse numbers \(\tilde u(F_ 1)\) and \(\tilde u(F_ 2)\) are equal to 2n and \(u(F_ 1)=u(F_ 2)+2=2n\). In the construction she also takes care of other invariants connected with orderings, for example \(\tilde ud(F)\) which is a counterpart of \(\tilde u(F)\) in the family of quadratic forms \(q\cong q_+\perp -q_-\) with \(q_+,q_-\) totally positive.

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