W-Groups under Quadratic Extensions of Fields

DOI10.4153/CJM-2000-036-0MaRDI QIDQ4514484zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ján Mináč, Tara L. Smith

Publication date 28 February 2001

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4153/cjm-2000-036-0

zbMATH Keywords

double rigid elementGalois groupquadratic extensionWitt ring

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

Let \(F\) be a field of characteristic not \(2\). Then the \(W\)-group \({\mathcal{G}}_F\) of \(F\) is defined as follows. Let \(F^{(3)}\) denotes the compositum over \(F\) of all extensions which are cyclic of degree 2, cyclic of degree 4, and dihedral of order 8. Then \({\mathcal{G}}_F\) is just the Galois group of \(F^{(3)}/F\). We know that \({\mathcal{G}}_F\simeq{\mathcal{G}}_L\) if the Witt rings \(W(F)\) and \(W(L)\) are isomorphic. Under a certain assumption the converse is also true. The purpose of the paper under review is to investigate the connection between \({\mathcal{G}}_F\) and \({\mathcal{G}}_{F(\sqrt{a})}\), where \(F(\sqrt{a})\) is a proper quadratic extension of \(F\). A precise description is given in the case when \(F\) is a Pythagorean formally real field and \(a=-1\). This theorem can be viewed as an analogue of the classical Artin-Schreier's theorem describing fields fixed by finite subgroups of absolute Galois groups. A precise result is also given if \(A\) is a so called double rigid element. We call \(a\) rigid, if the quadratic form \(X^2+aY^2\) presents only the square classes \(1\) and \(a\). A double rigid element is a rigid element \(a\) such that \(-a\) is rigid.

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