Witt invariants of quaternionic forms
Rings and Algebras
2025-04-23 v2
Abstract
We describe all Witt invariants of anti-hermitian forms over a quaternion algebra with its canonical involution, and in particular all Witt invariants of orthogonal groups where is an central simple algebra with orthogonal involution and has index . They are combinations of appropriately defined -powers, similarly to the case of quadratic forms, but the module of invariants is no longer free over those operations. The method involves extending the scalars to a generic splitting field of , and controlling the residues of the invariants with respect to valuations coming from closed points in the Severi-Brauer variety.
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@article{arxiv.2504.08920,
title = {Witt invariants of quaternionic forms},
author = {Nicolas Garrel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.08920},
year = {2025}
}
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18 pages