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A non-extended hermitian form over ℤ[ℤ]
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A non-extended hermitian form over ℤ[ℤ]

Abstract

We describe a nonsingular hermitian form of rank 4 over the group ring ℤ[ℤ] which is not extended from the integers. Moreover, we show that under certain indefiniteness asumptions, every nonsingular hermitian form on a free ℤ[ℤ]-module is extended from the integers. As a corollary, there exists a closed oriented 4-dimensional manifold with fundamental group ℤ which is not the connected sum of S1 × S3 with a simply-connected 4-manifold.

Authors

Hambleton I; Teichner P

Journal

Manuscripta Mathematica, Vol. 93, No. 4, pp. 435–442

Publication Date

January 1, 1997

DOI

10.1007/bf02677483

ISSN

0025-2611

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