Failure of the local-global principle for isotropy of quadratic forms over function fields (Q6610064)

Let \(k\) be an algebraically closed field of characteristic \(\not= 2\) which is not algebraic over a finite field,\Nand \(K\supseteq k\) a field extension of transcendence degree \(n\geq 2\). The main result of the paper shows\Nthat there exists an anisotropic quadratic form \(q\) of dimension \(2^{n}\) over \(K\), which is isotropic at all\Ncompletions \(K_{v}\), \(v\) a discrete valuation of \(K\). Using a result of \textit{F. A. Bogomolov} [Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 58, 83--88 (1995; Zbl 0843.12003)], in the paper\Ncalled Bogomolov's trick, the proof is reduced to the case that \(K\) is the rational function field \(k(T_{1},\ldots ,T_{n})\)\Nin \(n\) variables. In this situation the authors give explicit examples of \(2^{n}\)-dimensional quadratic forms which violate the local-global principle for isotropy, i.e., which are anisotropic but isotropic at all completions with\Nrespect to discrete valuations.