Pfister’s theorem for orthogonal involutions of degree 12

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09674-3MaRDI QIDQ3623331zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Anne Quéguiner-Mathieu, Skip Garibaldi

Publication date 17 April 2009

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1172

zbMATH Keywords

discriminantsquadratic formscentral simple algebrasalgebras with involutionunitary involutionsorthogonal involutionsClifford invariantshalf-spin representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rings with involution; Lie, Jordan and other nonassociative structures (16W10) Quadratic forms over general fields (11E04) Finite-dimensional division rings (16K20) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

Abstract: We use the fact that a projective half-spin representation of $Spi{n}_{12}$ has an open orbit to generalize Pfister's result on quadratic forms of dimension 12 in $I^3$ to orthogonal involutions.

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