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Valuation Rings and Rigid Elements in Fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Roger Ware
Roger Ware*
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Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
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In [20], T. A. Springer proved that if A is a complete discrete valuation ring with field of fractions F, residue class field of characteristic not 2, and uniformizing parameter π then any anisotropic quadratic form q over F has a unique decomposition as q = q1 ⊥ 〈π〉q2, where q1 and q2 represent only units of A, modulo squares in F (compare [14, Satz 12.2.2], [19, §4], [18, Theorem 8.9]). Consequently the binary quadratic form x2 + πy2 represents only elements in Ḟ2 ∪ πḞ2, where Ḟ2 denotes the set of nonzero squares in F. Szymiczek [21] has called a nonzero element a in a field F rigid if the binary quadratic form x2 + ay2 represents only elements in Ḟ2 ∪ aḞ2.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 33 , Issue 6 , 01 December 1981 , pp. 1338 - 1355
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1981

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