MATH Seminar
| Title: Field invariants via refinements to patching |
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| Seminar: Algebra |
| Speaker: David Harbater of UPenn |
| Contact: David Zureick-Brown, dzb@mathcs.emory.edu |
| Date: 2014-05-13 at 3:00PM |
| Venue: W306 |
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| Abstract: We consider fraction fields of complete two-dimensional domains, and obtain their u-invariant and period-index bound. This work, which is joint with Julia Hartmann and Daniel Krashen, builds on the method of patching, and introduces a new notion of refinement. Using that, we obtain local-global principles for quadratic forms and central simple algebras over the fields we consider, and also our results on numerical invariants of fields. |
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