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Record Nr.

UNISA996466858103316

Autore

Prestel A (Alexander), <1941->

Titolo

Lectures on formally real fields / / Alexander Prestel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : Springer-Verlag, , [1984]

©1984

ISBN

3-540-39093-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 1984.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 128 p.)

Collana

Lecture notes in mathematics ; ; 1093

Disciplina

512.3

Soggetti

Formally real fields

Forms, Quadratic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Orderings and semiorderings of fields -- Quadratic forms over formally real fields -- Real algebraic closures -- Some notions from model theory -- The transfer-principle for real closed fields -- The space of orderings and semiorderings -- Real places -- Real henselian fields -- SAP-fields -- Quadratic forms over formally real fields.

Sommario/riassunto

Absolute values and their completions - like the p-adic number fields- play an important role in number theory. Krull's generalization of absolute values to valuations made applications in other branches of mathematics, such as algebraic geometry, possible. In valuation theory, the notion of a completion has to be replaced by that of the so-called Henselization. In this book, the theory of valuations as well as of Henselizations is developed. The presentation is based on the knowledge aquired in a standard graduate course in algebra. The last chapter presents three applications of the general theory -as to Artin's Conjecture on the p-adic number fields- that could not be obtained by the use of absolute values only.