Wittrings

Author(s)

• Knebusch, Manfred
• Kolster, Manfred

Bibliographic Information

Wittrings

Manfred Knebusch, Manfred Kolster

（Aspects of mathematics = Aspekte der Mathematik, v. E2）

Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 1982

Note

Includes bibliographical reference (p. 88-92) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Table of Contents

I: Basic facts about symmetric bilinear forms, and definition of the Wittring..- 1 Bilinear Spaces.- 2 Witt- and Grothendieck-rings.- Appendix: Quadratic Forms.- II: The structure of Wittrings.- 1 Generators and Relations.- 2 The prime ideals of a Wittring.- 3 Nilpotent and torsion elements.- 4 Application: The theorem of Artin-Pfister.- 5 Complements to the structure theory.- 6 Characterization of abstract Wittrings.- 7 Fields with isomorphic Wittrings.- III: Reduced Wittrings.- 1 Von Neumann regular rings.- 2 Topological description of reduced Wittrings.- 3 A Nullstellensatz for Witt ideals and a generalization of the theorem of Artin-Pfister.- 4 When are Wittrings group rings?.- 5 Fields with strong approximation for orderings.- References.

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Details

• NCID: BA03982560
• ISBN:
  • 3528085126
• Country Code: gw
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engger
• Place of Publication: Braunschweig
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 96 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00423416