Stabilization of the Witt group

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2005.12.014MaRDI QIDQ817871zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Max Karoubi

Publication date 20 March 2006

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0509617

zbMATH Keywords

Hermitian \(K\)-theorystabilizationWitt groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hermitian (K)-theory, relations with (K)-theory of rings (19G38)

Abstract: Using an idea due to R.Thomason, we define a "homology theory" on the category of rings which satisfies excision, exactness, homotopy (in the algebraic sense) and periodicity of order 4. For regular noetherian rings, we find P. Balmer's higher Witt groups. For more general rings, this homology isomorphic to the KT-theory of J. Hornbostel, inspired by the work of B. Williams. For real or complex C*-algebras, we recover - up to 2 torsion - topological K-theory.

Review text

Let \(A\) be a ring with an anti-involution \(a \mapsto \bar{a}\) and let \(\epsilon\) be a central element, such that \(\epsilon \bar{\epsilon} = 1\). In general the higher Witt groups \(\,_{\epsilon}W_n(A)\) of \(\epsilon\)-hermitian forms lack some formal properties. Following an idea of Thomason, the author stabilizes the higher Witt groups, i.e., passes to the direct limit with respect to cup-products by a Bott element, to obtain a new theory \(\,_{\epsilon}\mathcal{W}_n(A)\), which now satisfies, e.g., homotopy invariance, excision and periodicity. Moreover, for regular Noetherian rings and \(\epsilon = 1\) the groups \(_1\mathcal W_n(A)\) coincide with the higher Witt groups defined by \textit{P. Balmer} [``Witt groups, in: Handbook of \(K\)-Theory, Vol. 2, Springer, 539--579 (2005; Zbl 1115.19004)].

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