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In this chapter we shall show that a certain kind of commutative ordered fields, the so called SAP fields, lend themselves very naturally for the construction of אo -forms which admit a simple classification with respect to isometry. We shall first say a few words about the fields and then describe the type of אo -forms to be studied.
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Gross, H. (1979). Classification of Forms Over Ordered Fields. In: Quadratic Forms in Infinite Dimensional Vector Spaces. Progress in Mathematics, vol 1. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3542-7_12
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