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As a consequence, the Pythagoras number of a non-formally-real field is either a power of 2, or 1 more than a power of 2. All such cases occur: i.e., for each pair (
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is a field with Pythagoras number 1: that is, every sum of squares is already a square.
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describes the structure of the set of squares in the field. The Pythagoras number
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Number which describes the structure of the set of squares in a given field
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is a sum of four squares, and not all are sums of three squares, so
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Every positive integer occurs as the Pythagoras number of some
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Index

Reduced height
Pythagoras's constant
height of a field
mathematics
field
integer
Pythagorean field
real number
finite field
characteristic
Lagrange's four-square theorem
rational number
formally real field
Stufe
quadratically closed fields
p-adic field
function field
height of a field
Graduate Studies in Mathematics
ISBN
0-8218-1095-2
MR
2104929
Zbl
1068.11023
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
0-521-42668-5
Zbl
0785.11022

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