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Special groups: Boolean-theoretic methods in the theory of quadratic forms: Boolean-Theoretic Methods in the Theory of Quadratic Forms
About this Title
M. A. Dickmann and F. Miraglia
Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year:
2000; Volume 145, Number 689
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-2057-5 (print); 978-1-4704-0280-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0689
MathSciNet review: 1677935
MSC: Primary 11E81; Secondary 12D15, 19G12
Table of Contents
Chapters
- 1. Special groups
- 2. Pfister forms, saturated subgroups and quotients
- 3. The space of orders of a reduced group. Duality
- 4. Boolean algebras and reduced special groups
- 5. Embeddings
- 6. Special groups of continuous functions
- 7. Horn-Tarski and Stiefel-Whitney invariants
- 8. Algebraic $K$-theory of fields and special groups
- 9. Marshall’s conjecture for Pythagorean fields
- 10. The category of special groups
- 11. Some model theory of special groups