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On property $D(2)$ and common splitting field of two biquaternion algebras
A. S. Sivatski Saint-Petersburg State Electrotechnical University
Abstract:
Let
$F$ be a field of characteristic
$\ne 2$. We say that
$F$ has property
$D(2)$ if for any quadratic extension
$L/F$ and any two binary quadratic forms over
$F$ having a common nonzero value over
$L$ this value can be chosen in
$F$. There exist examples of fields of characteristic 0 which do not satisfy property
$D(2)$. However, as far as we know, such examples of positive characteristic have not been constructed.
In this note we show that if
$k$ is a field of characteristic
$\ne 2$ such that
$\|k^*/{k^*}^2\|\ge 4$, then for the field
$k(x)$ property
$D(2)$ does not hold. Using this we construct two biquaternion algebras over a field
$K=k(x)((t))((u))$ such that their sum is a quaternion algebra, but they do not have a common biquadratic (i.e. a field of the kind
$K(\sqrt a,\sqrt b)$, where
$a,b\in K^*$) splitting field.
UDC:
512.552,
512.647.2 Received: 09.11.2006