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K3 of truncated polynomial rings over fields of characteristic two

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Janet Aisbett
Affiliation:
Electronic Research Laboratory, D.S.T.O., Adelaide, S.A. 5001, Australia
Victor Snaith
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada

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Write F for the finite field, , having 2m elements. Let W2(F) denote the Witt vectors of length two over F (for a definition, see [4] or [10], §10). Write F(q) for the truncated polynomial ring, F[t]/(tq).

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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1987

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