Hermitian Forms over Ordered ∗ -Fie
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Thomas C Craven; Tara L Smith
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Article
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1999
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Let D be a division ring with an involution. Assuming that D admits Baer orderings, we can study the Witt group of Hermitian forms over D by observing its image in the ring of continuous functions on the space of orderings. We are led to define a new class of rings which, when viewed in an abstract