On Monday, October 21, 2019 at 6:35:28 AM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>
> However, having a real embedding seems to be an unnecessary restriction, 
> as 
> a symmetric matrix of real cyclotomics will have real eigenvalues, and 
> it has a signature. 
> (I don't  know whether the signature will stay invariant if the 
> embedding changes - it should be either 
> easy  to prove or easy to give a counterexample...) 
>
> The signature need not be galois-invariant for a form over a totally real 
field, since totally real algebraic numbers need not be totally 
positive/negative. For instance:

X^2+ sqrt(2) * Y^2

(and sqrt(2) is indeed a cyclotomic number)

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