An explicit formula for Larmour's decomposition of hermitian forms
Rings and Algebras
2024-12-17 v1
Abstract
Let be a complete discretely valued field whose residue field has characteristic different from . Let be a division algebra with involution of the first kind, and be a anisotropic -hermitian form over . By a theorem due to Larmour, there is a decomposition such that the elements in a diagonalization of are units, the elements in a diagonalization of are uniformizers, and , are determined uniquely up to isometry. In this paper, we give an explicit description of the elements in the diagonalization of and in the case of quaternion algebras. Then we will derive explicit formulas for Larmour's isomorphism of Witt groups.
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@article{arxiv.2412.11110,
title = {An explicit formula for Larmour's decomposition of hermitian forms},
author = {Amin Soofiani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.11110},
year = {2024}
}