Counting Witts

Event details
Date | 04.02.2014 |
Hour | 14:15 › 15:15 |
Speaker | Pawel Gladki (Uniwersytet Slaski, Katowice) |
Location | |
Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract :
We shall investigate Witt equivalence of function fields of rational conic sections and try to count as many Witt non-equivalent classes of such fields as possible. The results to be presented rely heavily on a number of theorems published already in the 1930s and provide a new insight to the history of the algebraic theory of quadratic forms. This is joint work with Przemyslaw Koprowski and Murray Marshall.
We shall investigate Witt equivalence of function fields of rational conic sections and try to count as many Witt non-equivalent classes of such fields as possible. The results to be presented rely heavily on a number of theorems published already in the 1930s and provide a new insight to the history of the algebraic theory of quadratic forms. This is joint work with Przemyslaw Koprowski and Murray Marshall.
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