Jean-Pierre Tignol

  1. Springer's theorem for tame quadratic forms over Henselian fields.

    Authors: Jean-Pierre Tignol, Mohamed Abdou Elomary
    Subjects: K-Theory and Homology
    Abstract

    A quadratic form over a Henselian-valued field of arbitrary residue
    characteristic is tame if it becomes hyperbolic over a tamely ramified
    extension. The Witt group of tame quadratic forms is shown to be canonically
    isomorphic to the Witt group of graded quadratic forms over the graded ring
    associated to the filtration defined by the valuation, hence also isomorphic to
    a direct sum of copies of the Witt group of the residue field indexed by the
    value group modulo 2.

  2. Thin Severi-Brauer Varieties.

    Authors: Max-Albert Knus, Jean-Pierre Tignol
    Subjects: Rings and Algebras
    Abstract

    Severi-Brauer varieties are twisted forms of projective spaces (in the sense
    of Galois cohomology) and are associated in a functorial way to central simple
    algebras. Similarly quadrics are related to algebras with involution. Since
    thin projective spaces are finite sets, thin Severi-Brauer varieties are finite
    sets endowed with a Galois action; they are associated to etale algebras.
    Similarly, thin quadrics are etale algebras with involution.

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