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Fields with bounded Brauer $2$-torsion index

Rings and Algebras 2023-02-06 v1 K-Theory and Homology Number Theory

Abstract

It is shown that, over a field of characteristic not 22, the dimension of an anisotropic quadratic Pfister form of trivial total signature is at most twice the dimension of some central division algebra of exponent 22. The proof is based on computations with quadratic trace forms of central simple algebras.

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@article{arxiv.2302.01431,
  title  = {Fields with bounded Brauer $2$-torsion index},
  author = {Karim Johannes Becher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.01431},
  year   = {2023}
}
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