Derived Witt groups of a scheme, by Paul Balmer

We define the derived Witt groups of a scheme using derived categories. We establish an isomorphism between the usual Witt group of a ring and its derived Witt group. This new approach is used for some questions of localization. We give a new conceptual proof of purity in dimension 3.

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