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On the Quadratic Extensions and the Extended Witt Ring of a Commutative Ring

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Teruo Kanzaki*
Affiliation:
Osaka City University
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Let B be a ring and A a subring of B with the common identity element 1. If the residue A-module B/A is inversible as an A-A- bimodule, i.e. B/A ⊗A HomA(B/A, A) ≈ HomA(B/A, A) ⊗A B/AA, then B is called a quadratic extension of A. In the case where B and A are division rings, this definition coincides with in P. M. Cohn [2]. We can see easily that if B is a Galois extension of A with the Galois group G of order 2, in the sense of [3], and if is a quadratic extension of A. A generalized crossed product Δ(f, A, Φ, G) of a ring A and a group G of order 2, in [4], is also a quadratic extension of A.

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Copyright © Editorial Board of Nagoya Mathematical Journal 1973

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