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Local-global principle for Witt equivalence of function fields over global fields

Przemyslaw Koprowski (2002)

Colloquium Mathematicae

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We examine the conditions for two algebraic function fields over global fields to be Witt equivalent. We develop a criterion solving the problem which is analogous to the local-global principle for Witt equivalence of global fields obtained by R. Perlis, K. Szymiczek, P. E. Conner and R. Litherland [12]. Subsequently, we derive some immediate consequences of this result. In particular we show that Witt equivalence of algebraic function fields (that have rational places) over global fields...

Class numbers of totally real fields and applications to the Weber class number problem

John C. Miller (2014)

Acta Arithmetica

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The determination of the class number of totally real fields of large discriminant is known to be a difficult problem. The Minkowski bound is too large to be useful, and the root discriminant of the field can be too large to be treated by Odlyzko's discriminant bounds. We describe a new technique for determining the class number of such fields, allowing us to attack the class number problem for a large class of number fields not treatable by previously known methods. We give an application...

Extending automorphisms to the rational fractions field.

Fernando Fernández Rodríguez, Agustín Llerena Achutegui (1991)

Extracta Mathematicae

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We say that a field K has the Extension Property if every automorphism of K(X) extends to an automorphism of K. J.M. Gamboa and T. Recio [2] have introduced this concept, naive in appearance, because of its crucial role in the study of homogeneity conditions in spaces of orderings of functions fields. Gamboa [1] has studied several classes of fields with this property: Algebraic extensions of the field Q of rational numbers; euclidean, algebraically closed and pythagorean fields; fields...