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 -operations, and those -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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