On compositions and triality.
Motivated by recent work of Florian Pop, we study the connections between three notions of equivalence of function fields: isomorphism, elementary equivalence, and the condition that each of a pair of fields can be embedded in the other, which we call isogeny. Some of our results are purely geometric: we give an isogeny classification of Severi-Brauer varieties and quadric surfaces. These results are applied to deduce new instances of “elementary equivalence implies isomorphism”: for all genus zero...
Let be a totally real algebraic number field whose ring of integers is a principal ideal domain. Let be a totally definite ternary quadratic form with coefficients in . We shall study representations of totally positive elements by . We prove a quantitative formula relating the number of representations of by different classes in the genus of to the class number of , where is a constant depending only on . We give an algebraic proof of a classical result of H. Maass on representations...