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Ernst Witt

Publications associées (11)

On the Grothendieck-Serre conjecture for classical groups

We prove some new cases of the Grothendieck-Serre conjecture for classical groups. This is based on a new construction of the Gersten-Witt complex for Witt groups of Azumaya algebras with involution on regular semilocal rings, with explicit second residue ...

WILEY2022

Serre-Tate theory for Calabi-Yau varieties

Maciej Emilian Zdanowicz

Classical Serre-Tate theory describes deformations of ordinary abelian varieties. It implies that every such variety has a canonical lift to characteristic zero and equips the base of its universal deformation with a Frobenius lifting and canonical multipl ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2021

Automorphisms of even unimodular lattices and equivariant Witt groups

Eva Bayer Fluckiger

We characterize the irreducible polynomials that occur as the characteristic polynomial of an automorphism of an even unimodular lattice of a given signature, generalizing a theorem of Gross and McMullen. As part of the proof, we give a general criterion i ...

EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOC2020

Hermitian Categories, Extension Of Scalars And Systems Of Sesquilinear Forms

Eva Bayer Fluckiger, Daniel Arnold Moldovan

We prove that the category of systems of sesquilinear forms over a given hermitian category is equivalent to the category of unimodular 1-hermitian forms over another hermitian category. The sesquilinear forms are not required to be unimodular or defined o ...

Pacific Journal Mathematics2014

Hermitian Forms over Algebras with Involution and Hermitian Categories

Daniel Arnold Moldovan

This thesis is concerned with the algebraic theory of hermitian forms. It is organized in two parts. The first, consisting of the first two chapters, deals with some descent properties of unimodular hermitian forms over central simple algebras with involut ...

EPFL2012

Descent properties of hermitian Witt groups in inseparable extensions

Eva Bayer Fluckiger, Daniel Arnold Moldovan

Let k be a field of characteristic ≠2, A be a central simple algebra with involution σ over k and W(A,σ) be the associated Witt group of hermitian forms. We prove that for all purely inseparable extensions L of k, the canonical map rL/k:W(A,σ)⟶W(AL,σL) is ...

Springer Verlag2011

Annihilating Polynomials for Quadratic Forms

Klaas-Tido Rühl

Let K be a field with char(K) ≠ 2. The Witt-Grothendieck ring (K) and the Witt ring W (K) of K are both quotients of the group ring ℤ[𝓖(K)], where 𝓖(K) := K*/(K*)2 is the square class group of K. Since ℤ[𝓖(K)] is integra ...

EPFL2010

Annihilating Ideals Of Quadratic Forms Over Local And Global Fields

We study annihilating polynomials and annihilating ideals for elements of Witt rings for groups of exponent 2. With the help of these results and certain calculations involving the Clifford invariant, we are able to give full sets of generators for the ann ...

2010

Unitary descent properties

Eva Bayer Fluckiger

Let k be a field of characteristic /=2 and let W(k) be the Witt ring of k and L a finite extension of k. If L/k is a Galois extension, then the image of rL/k is contained in W(L)Gal(L/k) where rL/k:W(k)→W(L) is the canonical ring homomorphism. Rosenberg an ...

2009

On Hermitian Pfister Forms

Let K be a field of characteristic different from 2. It is known that a quadratic Pfister form over K is hyperbolic once it is isotropic. It is also known that the dimension of an anisotropic quadratic form over K belonging to a given power of the fundamen ...

2008