Special groups: Boolean-theoretic methods in the theory of quadratic forms

Abstract

Special groups Pfister forms, saturated subgroups and quotients The space of orders of a reduced group. Duality Boolean algebras and reduced special groups Embeddings Special groups of continuous functions Horn-Tarski and Stiefel-Whitney invariants Algebraic K-theory of fields and special groups Marshall's conjecture for pythagorean fields The category of special groups Some model theory of special groups Appendix A. The universal theory of reduced special groups Appendix B. Table of references for [DM1] and [DM2] Bibliography Index.