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Etale homotopy and sums-of-squares formulas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2008
Abstract
This paper uses a relative of BP-cohomology to prove a theorem in characteristic p algebra. Specifically, we obtain some new necessary conditions for the existence of sums-of-squares formulas over fields of characteristic p>2. These conditions were previously known in characteristic zero by results of Davis. Our proof uses a generalized étale cohomology theory called étale BP2.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 145 , Issue 1 , July 2008 , pp. 1 - 25
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