In this work, we present a generalization to varieties and sheaves of the fundamental ideal of the Witt ring of a field by defining a sheaf of fundamental ideals $tilde{I}$ and a sheaf of Witt rings $tilde{W}$ in the obvious way. The Milnor conjectur
e then relates the associated graded of $tilde{W}$ to Milnor K-theory and so allows the classical invariants of a bilinear space over a field to be extended to our setting using etale cohomology. As an application of these results, we calculate the Witt ring of a smooth curve with good reduction over a non-dyadic local field.
In this paper we calculate the Witt ring W(C) of a smooth geometrically connected projective curve C over a finite field of characteristic different from 2. We view W(C) as a subring of W(k(C)) where k(C) is the function field of C. We show that the
triviality of the Clifford algebra of a bilinear space over C gives the main relation. The calculation is then completed using classical results for bilinear spaces over fields.
