On the Witt rings of function fields of quasihomogeneous varieties

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Institute of Mathematics, University of Warsaw, Banacha 2, 02-097 Warszawa, Poland

Witt rings, graded rings, selfdual vector bundles, quasihomogeneous varieties, residue homomorphisms

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