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$K$-Theory and Algebraic Geometry: Connections with Quadratic Forms and Division Algebras, Part 2

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Bill Jacob, University of California Santa Barbara and Alex Rosenberg, University of California Santa Barbara, Editors

Publication: Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics
Publication Year: 1995; Volume 58.2
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-0340-0 (print); 978-0-8218-9361-6 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/pspum/058.2

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Articles

• Jón Kr. Arason, Richard Elman and Bill Jacob – On the Witt ring of elliptic curves [MR 1327286]
• Roberto Aravire and Bill Jacob – $p$-algebras over maximally complete fields [MR 1327287]
• Stella Roberson Ashford – Weil’s additive characters and class number parity [MR 1327288]
• R. Baeza and M. I. Icaza – Decomposition of positive definite integral quadratic forms as sums of positive definite quadratic forms [MR 1327289]
• Eva Bayer-Fluckiger and Jorge Morales – Multiples of trace forms in number fields [MR 1327290]
• Fedor A. Bogomolov – On the structure of Galois groups of the fields of rational functions [MR 1327291]
• Nancy Childress and David Grant – Formal groups of twisted multiplicative groups and $L$-series [MR 1327292]
• M. D. Choi, T. Y. Lam and B. Reznick – Sums of squares of real polynomials [MR 1327293]
• J.-L. Colliot-Thélène and R. Sujatha – Unramified Witt groups of real anisotropic quadrics [MR 1327294]
• Thomas C. Craven – Orderings, valuations, and Hermitian forms over $*$-fields [MR 1327295]
• Burton Fein and Murray Schacher – A conjecture about relative Brauer groups [MR 1327296]
• Yuval Z. Flicker – Bernstein’s isomorphism and good forms [MR 1327297]
• T. J. Ford – Examples of locally trivial Azumaya algebras [MR 1327298]
• Detlev W. Hoffmann – Isotropy of $5$-dimensional quadratic forms over the function field of a quadric [MR 1327299]
• D. W. Hoffmann, D. W. Lewis and J. Van Geel – Minimal forms for function fields of conics [MR 1327300]
• Raymond T. Hoobler – Generalized class field theory and cyclic algebras [MR 1327301]
• Donald G. James – The number of embeddings of quadratic $S$-lattices [MR 1327302]
• N. A. Karpenko – On topological filtration for Severi-Brauer varieties [MR 1327303]
• M.-A. Knus, T. Y. Lam, D. B. Shapiro and J.-P. Tignol – Discriminants of involutions on biquaternion algebras [MR 1327304]
• Steven Liedahl – $p$-groups and $K$-admissibility [MR 1327305]
• Hongnian Li – Brauer groups over affine normal surfaces [MR 1327306]
• A. S. Merkurjev – Certain $K$-cohomology groups of Severi-Brauer varieties [MR 1327307]
• Ján Mináč and Adrian R. Wadsworth – The $u$-invariant for algebraic extensions [MR 1327308]
• Patrick J. Morandi – On defective division algebras [MR 1327309]
• Emmanuel Peyre – Products of Severi-Brauer varieties and Galois cohomology [MR 1327310]
• S. Saito and R. Sujatha – A finiteness theorem for cohomology of surfaces over $p$-adic fields and an application to Witt groups [MR 1327311]
• Tara L. Smith – Witt rings and realizability of small $2$-Galois groups [MR 1327312]
• Roger Ware – Quadratic forms and solvable Galois groups [MR 1327313]
• Vyacheslav I. Yanchevskiĭ – Symmetric and skew-symmetric elements of involutions, associated groups and the problem of decomposability of involutions [MR 1327314]