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Even Stiefel-Whitney invariants for anti-hermitian quaternionic forms

K-Theory and Homology 2024-11-12 v2

Abstract

We extend all cohomological invariants of similarity classes of quadratic forms to anti-hermitian forms over a quaternion algebra. This uses the fact that such invariants can be lifted to Witt invariants, which can be described as combinations of λ\lambda-operations, and those λ\lambda-operations have recently been extended to hermitian forms over algebras with involution. In the article we present a detailed combinatoric description of invariants of quadratic forms which are partially diagonalized, and show how this combinatorics extend to anti-hermitian quaternionic forms. The methods developped here are intended to be later used for general algebras with involution.

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@article{arxiv.2304.07807,
  title  = {Even Stiefel-Whitney invariants for anti-hermitian quaternionic forms},
  author = {Nicolas Garrel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.07807},
  year   = {2024}
}

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26 pages

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