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Universality lifting from a general base field

Number Theory 2025-10-27 v1

Abstract

Given a totally real number field FF, we show that there are only finitely many totally real extensions of KK of a fixed degree that admit a universal quadratic form defined over FF. We further obtain several explicit classification results in the case of relative quadratic extensions.

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@article{arxiv.2407.20781,
  title  = {Universality lifting from a general base field},
  author = {Vitezslav Kala and Daejun Kim and Seok Hyeong Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.20781},
  year   = {2025}
}

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17 pages

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