The Witt Group of Degree k Maps and Asymmetric Inner Product Spaces

Max L. Warshauer (auth.)9780387112015, 0-387-11201-4

Table of contents :
Introduction….Pages 1-10
Conventions….Pages 11-11
The Witt ring….Pages 12-46
Witt invariants….Pages 47-69
Polynomials….Pages 70-78
Witt group of a field….Pages 79-132
The boundary….Pages 133-183
Non-maximal orders….Pages 184-206
The global boundary….Pages 207-225
A detailed analysis of the octagon….Pages 226-248
The octagon over Z….Pages 249-258