The square class invariant

DOI10.1216/RMJM/1181073161MaRDI QIDQ919379zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Craig M. Cordes, David L. Foreman

Publication date 1990

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1216/rmjm/1181073161

zbMATH Keywords

C-fieldquadratic formsquare class invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

For a field F and a quadratic form Q over F, the square class invariant for Q is the function \(f_ Q: \dot F/\dot F^ 2\to {\mathbb{Z}}\) defined by \(f_ Q(a\dot F^ 2)=n\) if \(Q\cong n<a>+P\) and a is not represented by P. If F is non-formally real the level of F, s(F), is the smallest number of squares adding to -1. The following are proved: If F is non- pythagorean and s(F)\(\geq 4\) then \(f_ Q\) does not classify forms over F. F is a C-field if its anisotropic forms are uniquely determined by their value sets. If s(F)\(\leq 2\) and \(f_ Q\) classifies forms over F, then F is a C-field. If F is a C-field with \(s(F)=1\) or 2 and either u(F) or \(| \dot F/D(<1,1>)|\) is finite, then \(f_ Q\) classifies forms over F. If F is nonreal, there are more than two quaternion algebras over F, and \(u(F)=4\), then \(f_ Q\) and det do not classify forms over F.

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