Witt rings of quadratically presentable fields

Authors Paweł Gładki, Krzysztof Worytkiewicz

Publication date 5 October 2020

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.04659, http://cgasa.sbu.ac.ir/article_87412.html

hyperfields quadratic forms quadratically presentable fields Witt rings

Ordered rings, algebras, modules (06F25) Sums of squares and representations by other particular quadratic forms (11E25) Algebraic theory of quadratic forms; Witt groups and rings (11E81) Fields related with sums of squares (formally real fields, Pythagorean fields, etc.) (12D15) Ordered fields (12J15)

Abstract: This paper introduces a novel approach to the axiomatic theory of quadratic forms. We work internally in a category of certain partially ordered sets, subject to additional conditions which amount to a strong form of local presentability. We call such partial orders presentable. It turns out that the classical notion of the Witt ring of symmetric bilinear forms over a field makes sense in the context of quadratically presentable fields, that is fields equipped with a presentable partial order inequationaly compatible with the algebraic operations. As an application, we show that Witt rings of symmetric bilinear forms over fields, of both characteristic 2 and not 2, are isomorphic to Witt rings of suitably built quadratically presentable fields, which therefore provide a uniform construction of Witt rings for all characteristics.

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