On strong automorphisms of direct products of Witt rings. Part 1

The notion of Witt ring is fundamental in bilinear algebra. Automorphisms of Witt rings have been investigated until recent years. In this paper we consider Witt rings which are direct products of finite number of other Witt rings. We shall present a necessary condition in order to group of all strong automorphisms of direct product of Witt rings be a direct product of groups of strong automorphisms of Witt rings which are factors in the direct product. Subsequently, there are considered some examples of Witt rings, where described condition is fulfilled.