The L-Theory of Laurent extensions and genus 0 function fields.

We exhibit a smooth complex affine 5-fold whose Witt group of quadratic forms does not inject into the Witt group of its function field. The dimension 5 is the smallest possible. The example depends on relating Witt groups, mod 2 Chow groups, and Steenrod operations.AMS 2000 Mathematics subject classification: Primary 19G12. Secondary 19E15

The object of this work is to define, by analogy with algebra, the Witt group and the graded Brauer group of a topological space X.A homomorphism is defined between them analogous to the generalized Hasse invariant.Upon evaluation, the Witt group is seen to be KO(X), the graded Brauer group 1+H1(X;ZZ) + H2(X; Z2) with truncated cup product multiplication, while the homomorphism is given by Stiefel-Whitney classes: I + m^ + h^.Introduction.The Hasse invariant of a quadratic form on a vector space over a field k is an element of the Brauer group of k.It can be generalized to a homomorphism from the Witt group of classes of quadratic forms to the graded Brauer group of classes of graded ^-algebras [3], [16].Curiously enough, in this guise it is quite analogous to the homomorphism given by the first two Stiefel-Whitney classes which maps real vector bundles over a space X to the group 1 + H\X; Z2) + H2(X;Z2), where multiplication is by truncated cup product.The purpose of this paper is to display this analogy.Delzant has defined Stiefel-Whitney classes of quadratic forms [4], [13] using the discriminant and Hasse invariant.It should add insight into his definition to see that the first two topological Stiefel-Whitney classes can also be defined in an algebraic way.A vector bundle L is known to be orientable for real L-theory if its first two Stiefel-Whitney classes vanish.In this case it can be read off from the diagram of Theorem 3.1 that the Clifford bundle of L is a bundle of graded endomorphism algebras of a graded module bundle, which is then used to construct the Thorn class of L. Donovan and Karoubi in studying this orientability question have done independently much of this same work, applying it further to define L-theory with local coefficients [6], [7].The connection between algebra and topology comes from considering bundles over X whose fibers are vector spaces with quadratic forms or graded algebras and subjecting them to the same analysis the fiber alone is accorded in algebra.This is described in some detail in 1.11 is devoted to the algebraic computations and 111 to a study of the topological problems.

The computation of odd dimensional projective surgery groups of finite groups

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We give a pure complex variable proof of a theorem by Ismail and Stanton and apply this result in the field of integer-valued entire functions. Our proof rests on a very general interpolation result for entire functions.

Introduction Classical theory of symmetric bilinear forms and quadratic forms: Bilinear forms Quadratic forms Forms over rational function fields Function fields of quadrics Bilinear and quadratic forms and algebraic extensions $u$-invariants Applications of the Milnor conjecture On the norm residue homomorphism of degree two Algebraic cycles: Homology and cohomology Chow groups Steenrod operations Category of Chow motives Quadratic forms and algebraic cycles: Cycles on powers of quadrics The Izhboldin dimension Application of Steenrod operations The variety of maximal totally isotropic subspaces Motives of quadrics Appendices Bibliography Notation Terminology.

We obtain a Siegel formula for a quadratic form over a function field, by establishing the convergence of the corresponding Eisenstein-Siegel series directly, then via the Hasse principle, that of the associated Poisson formula.

We obtain new results on linear spaces on the intersection of two quadratic forms defined over a non-dyadic p-adic field \({{\Bbb Q}_p}\). One of our main tools is a recent result of Parimala and Suresh on isotropy of quadratic forms over functions fields over \({{\Bbb Q}_p}\). As a corollary we also get new bounds for the number of variables necessary to always find a non-trivial p-adic zero of a system of quadratic forms.

This chapter investigates the objects and mappings of algebraic geometry from a geometric point of view, making use especially of the algebraic tools of Chapter VII and of Sections 7–10 of Chapter VIII. In Sections 1–12, k denotes a fixed algebraically closed field. Sections 1–6 establish the definitions and elementary properties of varieties, maps between varieties, and dimension, all over k. Sections 1–3 concern varieties and dimension. Affine algebraic sets, affine varieties, and the Zariski topology on affine space are introduced in Section 1, and projective algebraic sets and projective varieties are introduced in Section 3. Section 2 defines the geometric dimension of an affine algebraic set, relating the notion to Krull dimension and transcendence degree. The actual context of Section 2 is a Noetherian topological space, the Zariski topology on affine space being an example. In such a space every closed subset is the finite union of irreducible closed subsets, and the union can be written in a certainway thatmakes the decomposition unique. Every nonempty closed set has a meaningful geometric dimension. In affine space the irreducible closed sets are the varieties, and each variety acquires a geometric dimension. The discussion in Section 2 applies in the context of projective space as well, and thus each projective variety acquires a geometric dimension. Moreover, any nonempty open subset of a Noetherian space is Noetherian. A nonempty open subset of an affine variety is called quasi-affine, and a nonempty open subset of a projective variety is called quasiprojective. Each quasi-affine variety or quasiprojective variety has a dimension equal to that of its closure, which is a variety. Sections 4–6 take up maps between varieties. Section 4 introduces spaces of scalar-valued functions on quasiprojective varieties–rational functions, functions regular at a point, and functions regular on an open set. The section goes on to relate these notions for the different kinds of varieties. Section 5 introduces morphisms, which are a restricted kind of function between varieties. The tools of Sections 4–5 together show that for many purposes all the different kinds of varieties can be treated as quasiprojective varieties. Section 6 introduces rational maps between varieties; these are not everywhere-defined functions, but each can be restricted to an open dense subset on which it is a morphism. Rational maps with dense image correspond to field mappings of the fields of rational functions, with the order of the mappings reversed. Section 7 concerns singularities at points of varieties, still over the field k. Zariski's Theorem was stated in Chapter VII for affine varieties and partly proved at that time. In the current context it has a meaning for any point of any quasiprojective variety. The section proves the full theorem, which characterizes singular points in a way that shows they remain singular under isomorphisms of varieties. Section 8 concerns classification questions over k for irreducible curves, i.e., quasiprojective varieties of dimension 1. From Section 6 it is known that two irreducible curves are equivalent under rational maps if and only if their fields of rational functions are isomorphic. The main theorem of Section 8 is that each such equivalence class of irreducible curves contains an everywhere nonsingular projective curve, and this curve is unique up to isomorphism of varieties. The points of this curve are parametrized by those discrete valuations of the underlying function field that are defined over k. Sections 9–12 relate the general theory of Sections 1–6 to the topic of solutions of simultaneous solutions of polynomial equations, as treated at length in Chapter VIII. Section 9 treats monomial ideals in k[X1, . . . , Xn], identifying their zero loci concretely and computing their dimension. The section goes on to introduce the affineHilbert function of this ideal, which measures the proportion of polynomials of degree≤ s not in the ideal. In the way that this function is defined, it is a polynomial for large s called the affine Hilbert polynomial of the ideal. Its degree equals the dimension of the zero locus of the ideal. Section 10 extends this theory from monomial ideals to all ideals, again concretely computing the dimension of the zero loci, obtaining an affine Hilbert polynomial, and showing that its degree equals the dimension of the zero locus of the ideal. Section 11 adapts the theory to homogeneous ideals and projective algebraic sets by making use of the cone in affine space over the set in projective space. Section 12 applies the theory of Section 11 to address the question how the dimension of a projective algebraic set is cut down when the set is intersected with a projective hypersurface. A consequence of the theory is the result that a homogeneous system of polynomial equations over an algebraically closed field with more unknowns than equations has a nonzero solution. Section 13 is a brief introduction to the theory of schemes, which extends the theory of varieties by replacing the underlying algebraically closed field by an arbitrary commutative ring with identity.

The general dispersion relation for electromagnetic surface waves on a plasma-vacuum interface, recently derived by Rowe (1991), is applied to the case of a cold magnetised plasma bounded by a vacuum. It is illustrated how the dispersion relation and the surface wave fields may be determined in practice, and some general results are given. It is remarked that a plasma of this type satisfies the consistency conditions which were derived for the general theory by Rowe. These general results are then used to reproduce the dispersion relation of Cramer and Donnelly (1983) for low frequency surface waves in an electron-ion plasma. This example illustrates the general principles of the theory. A major difference between the derivation in their paper and the calculation of this paper is that in the former the plasma was assumed to be infinitely conducting whereas here the plasma is strictly assumed to have finite conductivity.The transition to infinite conductivity, which involves a slight extension of the general theory to include surface currents, is thus also discussed.

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Given a field K equipped with a set of discrete valuations V , we develop a general theory to relate reduction properties of skew-hermitian forms over a quaternion K -algebra Q to quadratic forms over the function field K(Q) obtained via Morita equivalence. Using this we show that if (K,V) satisfies certain conditions, then the number of K -isomorphism classes of the universal coverings of the special unitary groups of quaternionic skew-hermitian forms that have good reduction at all valuations in V is finite and bounded by a value that depends on size of a quotient of the Picard group of V and the size of the kernel and cokernel of residue maps in Galois cohomology of K with finite coefficients. As a corollary we prove a conjecture of Chernousov, Rapinchuk, Rapinchuk for groups of this type.

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Sur les dimensions des formes quadratiques de hauteur 2

Having set up the general theory of valued fields, we now return to algebraic number fields. We want to develop their basic theory from the valuation-theoretic point of view. This approach has two prominent advantages compared to the ideal-theoretic treatment given in the first chapter. The first one results from the possibility of passing to completions, thereby enacting the important “local-to-global principle”. This will be done in chapter VI. The other advantage lies in the fact that the archimedean valuations bring into the picture the points at infinity, which were hitherto lacking, as the “primes at infinity”. In this way a perfect analogy with the function fields is achieved. This is the task to which we now turn.