Central simple algebra;
quaternion algebra;
splitting field;
index;
exponent;
2-extension;
system of quadratic forms;
corestriction;
characteristic two;
D O I:
10.1142/S021949882250061X
中图分类号:
O29 [应用数学];
学科分类号:
070104 ;
摘要:
We study systems of quadratic forms over fields and their isotropy over 2-extensions. We apply this to obtain particular splitting fields for quaternion algebras defined over a finite field extension. As a consequence we obtain that every central simple algebra of degree 16 is split by a 2-extension of degree at most 2(16).