Automatic search of rational self-equivalences

Two Witt rings that are not strongly isomorphic (i.e., two Witt rings over two fields that are not Witt equivalent) have different groups of strong automorphisms. Therefore, the description of a group of strong automorphisms is different for almost every Witt ring, which requires the use various tools in proofs. It is natural idea to use computers to generate strong automorphisms of the Witt rings, which is especially effective in the case of the finitely generated Witt rings, where a complete list of strong automorphisms can be created. In this paper we present the algorithm that was used to generate strong automorphisms from the infinite group of strong automorphisms of the Witt ring of rational numbers W(Q).