Faithfully Quadratic Rings

Faithfully Quadratic Rings
ISBN-10
1470414686
ISBN-13
9781470414689
Category
Commutative rings
Pages
129
Language
English
Published
2015-10-27
Publisher
American Mathematical Soc.
Authors
M. Dickmann, F. Miraglia

Description

In this monograph the authors extend the classical algebraic theory of quadratic forms over fields to diagonal quadratic forms with invertible entries over broad classes of commutative, unitary rings where is not a sum of squares and is invertible. They accomplish this by: (1) Extending the classical notion of matrix isometry of forms to a suitable notion of -isometry, where is a preorder of the given ring, , or . (2) Introducing in this context three axioms expressing simple properties of (value) representation of elements of the ring by quadratic forms, well-known to hold in the field case.

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