On Lam's Conjecture concerning Signatures of Quadratic Forms
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In this paper, we prove that formally real elds satisfying some explicit conditions on the v-invariant verify a Lam's conjecture concerning signatures of quadratic forms. In particular, it gives a short proof of a Marshall's conjecture for Pythagorean elds.
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