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The descent of biquaternion algebras in characteristic two

Commutative Algebra 2019-03-06 v2

Abstract

In this paper we associate an invariant to a biquaternion algebra BB over a field KK with a subfield FF such that K/FK/F is a quadratic separable extension and char(F)=2\operatorname{char}(F)=2. We show that this invariant is trivial exactly when BB0KB \cong B_0 \otimes K for some biquaternion algebra B0B_0 over FF. We also study the behavior of this invariant under certain field extensions and provide several interesting examples.

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@article{arxiv.1809.03965,
  title  = {The descent of biquaternion algebras in characteristic two},
  author = {Demba Barry and Adam Chapman and Ahmed Laghribi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.03965},
  year   = {2019}
}