Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4584608 Journal of Algebra 2015 12 Pages PDF
Abstract
In this work, we present a generalization to varieties and sheaves of the fundamental ideal of the Witt ring of a field by defining a sheaf of fundamental ideals I˜ and a sheaf of Witt rings W˜ in the obvious way. The Milnor conjecture then relates the associated graded of W˜ to Milnor K-theory and so allows the classical invariants of a bilinear space over a field to be extended to our setting using étale cohomology. As an application of these results, we calculate the Witt ring of a smooth curve with good reduction over a non-dyadic local field.
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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Algebra and Number Theory
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