Identifier
etd-0718101-153927
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Mathematics
Document Type
Dissertation
Abstract
This dissertation makes a contribution to the study of Witt rings of quadratic forms over number fields. To every pair of algebraic number fields with isomorphic Witt rings one can associate a number, called the minimum number of wild primes. The situation is particularly nice when this number is 0; often it is not 0. Earlier investigations have established lower bounds for this number. In this dissertation an analysis is presented that expresses the minimum number of wild primes in terms of the number of wild dyadic primes. This formula not only gives immediate upper bounds, but can be considered to be an exact formula for the minimum number of wild primes.
Date
2001
Document Availability at the Time of Submission
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Recommended Citation
Somodi, Marius M., "Bounding the wild set (counting the minimum number of wild primes in Hilbert symbol equivalent number fields)" (2001). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 2771.
https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/2771
Committee Chair
Robert Perlis
DOI
10.31390/gradschool_dissertations.2771