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Main Author: Barańczuk, Stefan
Format: Preprint
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06089
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contents Consider groups such as Mordell-Weil groups of abelian varieties over number fields, odd algebraic $K$-theory groups of number fields, or finitely generated subgroups of the multiplicative groups of number fields. They are all equipped with systems of reduction maps; thus, one can investigate the Hasse-Minkowski theorem for quadratic forms with coefficients in such groups. In this paper, we prove that the theorem holds for the forms whose rank equals $2$ or $3$, and we demonstrate that it does not hold for higher ranks by providing a counterexample. We also show that our results constitute a generalization of the classic Hasse-Minkowski theorem for binary and ternary integral forms.
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spellingShingle Hasse-Minkowski theorem for quadratic forms on groups
Barańczuk, Stefan
Number Theory
14G12, 14K15, 11R70, 11R04
Consider groups such as Mordell-Weil groups of abelian varieties over number fields, odd algebraic $K$-theory groups of number fields, or finitely generated subgroups of the multiplicative groups of number fields. They are all equipped with systems of reduction maps; thus, one can investigate the Hasse-Minkowski theorem for quadratic forms with coefficients in such groups. In this paper, we prove that the theorem holds for the forms whose rank equals $2$ or $3$, and we demonstrate that it does not hold for higher ranks by providing a counterexample. We also show that our results constitute a generalization of the classic Hasse-Minkowski theorem for binary and ternary integral forms.
title Hasse-Minkowski theorem for quadratic forms on groups
topic Number Theory
14G12, 14K15, 11R70, 11R04
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06089