Round quadratic forms under algebraic extensions

DOI10.2140/PJM.1991.147.213MaRDI QIDQ1119678zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Burkhard Alpers

Publication date 1991

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.1991.147.213

zbMATH Keywords

birigid elementsgoing-downgoing-upnon-formally real fieldsquadratic formsround forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over general fields (11E04) Algebraic theory of quadratic forms; Witt groups and rings (11E81) Fields related with sums of squares (formally real fields, Pythagorean fields, etc.) (12D15) Field extensions (12F99)

Review text

Pfister forms over fields are those anisotropic forms that remain round under any field extension. Here, round means that for any non-zero represented element x the isometry \(q\cong xq\) holds where q is the form under consideration. We investigate whether a similar characterization can be given for the round forms themselves. We get several ``going-up- and ``going-down-theorems. Some counter-examples are given which show that neither in the ``going-up nor in the ``going-down situation a general theorem holds.

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