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The general Arason-Pfister Hauptsatz

Commutative Algebra 2024-04-12 v3 Algebraic Geometry K-Theory and Homology

Abstract

In the present we develop a fragment of the theory of superfields, polynomials and Marshall's quotient in order to obtain for general special groups, a proof of the Arason-Pfister Hauptsatz (APH): "if ϕ\phi \neq \emptyset is an anisotropic form and ϕIn(F)\phi \in I^n(F) then dim(ϕ)2ndim (\phi) \geq 2^n". In the process, we also obtain an alternative proof of APH for reduced special groups that avoid the uses of the invariants developed in \cite{dickmann2000special}. The applications of the full Arason-Pfister Hauptsatz leads to interesting properties of graded rings associated to special groups/hyperfields. \textbf{Keywords:} Arason-Pfister Hauptsatz; hyperfields; special groups; Milnor K-theory; graded rings.

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@article{arxiv.2210.03784,
  title  = {The general Arason-Pfister Hauptsatz},
  author = {Kaique Matias de Andrade Roberto and Hugo Rafael de Oliveira Ribeiro and Hugo Luiz Mariano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.03784},
  year   = {2024}
}

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arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2208.08537

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