DECOMPOSITION OF A HIGHER DEGREE FORM

ABSTRACT

We give another proof of Harrison's decomposition result,[2] Prop. 2.3 for higher degree forms over a noetherian ring, exploiting an earlier introduction of the centre. We generalise to higher degree forms over a noetherian scheme: we extend the notion of centre; we prove a decomposition result; we extend Harrison's result,[2] Prop. 4.3 on the behaviour of the centre under a flat base extension; and we improve his result,[2] Prop. 4.2, giving conditions on the base scheme under which the centre of the tensor product of two higher degree forms is isomorphic to the tensor product of their centres.

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