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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 implies...
We give lower bounds on the number of effective divisors of degree with respect to the number of places of certain degrees of an algebraic function field of genus defined over a finite field. We deduce lower bounds for the class number which improve the Lachaud - Martin-Deschamps bounds and asymptotically reaches the Tsfasman-Vladut bounds. We give examples of towers of algebraic function fields having a large class number.
The starting point of this note is the observation that the local condition used in the notion of a Hilbert-symbol equivalence and a quaternion-symbol equivalence — once it is expressed in terms of the Witt invariant — admits a natural generalisation. In this paper we show that for global function fields as well as the formally real function fields over a real closed field all the resulting equivalences coincide.