A bound for the index of a quadratic form after scalar extension to the function field of a quadric

DOI10.1017/S1474748018000051MaRDI QIDQ5221318zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephen Scully

Publication date 25 March 2020

Published in Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.07529

zbMATH Keywords

quadratic formisotropyrational mapfunction field of a quadricquadricChow motiveisotropy indexquasilinear quadratic formquadratic Grassmannian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rational and birational maps (14E05) Quadratic forms over general fields (11E04) Vector spaces, linear dependence, rank, lineability (15A03)

Abstract: Let $q$ be an anisotropic quadratic form defined over a general field $F$. In this article, we formulate a new upper bound for the isotropy index of $q$ after scalar extension to the function field of an arbitrary quadric. On the one hand, this bound offers a refinement of a celebrated bound established in earlier work of Karpenko-Merkurjev and Totaro; on the other, it is a direct generalization of Karpenko's theorem on the possible values of the first higher isotropy index. We prove its validity in two important cases: (i) the case where $mathrmchar(F)eq2$, and (ii) the case where $mathrmchar(F)=2$ and $q$ is quasilinear (i.e., diagonalizable). The two cases are treated separately using completely different approaches, the first being algebraic-geometric, and the second being purely algebraic.

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