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On the Integral Extensions of Quadratic Forms Over Local Fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Melvin Band
Melvin Band*
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Let F be a local field with ring of integers and unique prime ideal (p). Suppose that V a finite-dimensional regular quadratic space over F, W and W′ are two isometric subspaces of V (i.e. τ: W → W′ is an isometry from W to W′). By the well-known Witt's Theorem, τ can always be extended to an isometry σ ∈ O(V).

The integral analogue of this theorem has been solved over non-dyadic local fields by James and Rosenzweig [2], over the 2-adic fields by Trojan [4], and partially over the dyadics by Hsia [1], all for the special case that W is a line. In this paper we give necessary and sufficient conditions that two arbitrary dimensional subspaces W and W′ are integrally equivalent over non-dyadic local fields.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , 01 April 1970 , pp. 297 - 307
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1970

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