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TauCeti.NumberTheory.QuadraticForm.Global.FiniteHasse

The Hasse sign of a quadratic form at a finite place #

For a regular quadratic form Q over a number field K and a finite place v of K, the finite Hasse sign Q.finiteHasse hQ v ∈ {±1} is the local Hasse invariant TauCeti.RegularFormClass.localHasse of the localization Q.atFinitePlace v over the completion K_v. If Q ≅ ⟨a₁, …, aₙ⟩ over K, it is the product ∏_{i<j} (aᵢ, aⱼ)_v of the Hilbert symbols of the localized coefficients, and it does not depend on the chosen diagonalization.

The discriminant square class of Q at v is the image of the global discriminant of Q in K_vˣ/(K_vˣ)², which is the discriminant of the localized form by QuadraticForm.discr_atFinitePlace. It is the only local datum besides the rank that enters the behaviour of the finite Hasse sign under the operations on forms:

Together with the rank and the discriminant, the Hasse sign is one of the three invariants that classify regular quadratic forms over a nonarchimedean local field (O'Meara, §63).

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The Hasse sign of a regular quadratic form at a finite place v of a number field: the local Hasse invariant ∏_{i<j} (aᵢ, aⱼ)_v ∈ {±1} of the localization of Q at v, for any diagonalization ⟨a₁, …, aₙ⟩ of that localization over the completion K_v.

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    The finite Hasse sign is the local Hasse invariant of the class of the localized form.

    The finite Hasse sign is the local Hasse invariant of the scalar extension to K_v of the isometry class of Q over K.

    Independence of the diagonalization. If Q ≅ ⟨a₁, …, aₙ⟩ over K, the finite Hasse sign of Q at v is ∏_{i<j} (aᵢ, aⱼ)_v, the product of the Hilbert symbols over K_v of the images of the coefficients.

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    The finite Hasse sign of a binary diagonal form ⟨a, b⟩ at v is the single Hilbert symbol (a, b)_v of the images of its coefficients.

    Isometry invariance. Regular forms whose localizations at v are isometric have the same finite Hasse sign at v.

    Isometric regular forms have the same finite Hasse sign at every finite place.

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    The finite Hasse sign of a form of rank at most one is trivial.

    The finite Hasse sign of a binary form is trivial at every finite place v at which the image of its global discriminant in K_vˣ/(K_vˣ)² is the class of -1: there the localization is a hyperbolic plane.

    The scaling formula s_v(a Q) = s_v(Q) · (a, -1)_v^{n(n-1)/2} · (a, d_v(Q))_v^{n-1} for a ∈ Kˣ and a form Q of rank n, where d_v(Q) is the image in K_vˣ/(K_vˣ)² of the global discriminant.

    The negation formula s_v(-Q) = s_v(Q) · (-1, -1)_v^{n(n-1)/2} · (-1, d_v(Q))_v^{n-1} for a form Q of rank n, where d_v(Q) is the image in K_vˣ/(K_vˣ)² of the global discriminant.