The minimal height of quadratic forms of given dimension

DOI10.1007/S00013-006-1833-4MaRDI QIDQ866819zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nikita Karpenko, Ulf Rehmann, Jurgen Hurrelbrink

Publication date 14 February 2007

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-006-1833-4

zbMATH Keywords

Excellent quadratic formssplitting pattern of anisotropic quadratic forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over general fields (11E04) Algebraic cycles (14C25)

Review text

The height \(h(\phi)\) of an anisotropic quadratic form over a field is the length of the splitting tower of \(\phi\). \textit{J. Hurrelbrink} and \textit{U. Rehmann} [J. Reine Angew. Math. 444, 183--192 (1993; Zbl 0791.11016)] determined the height of an excellent form of dimension \(n\) from the representation of \(n\) in the form of alternating sum of distinct \(2-\)powers. They conjectured that the height of anisotropic excellent form of dimension \(n\) is minimal among the heights of all anisotropic forms of dimension \(n\). In the present paper this conjecture is proved by using an improved version of the results of \textit{N. A. Karpenko} [Invent. Math. 153, No.~2, 455--462 (2003; Zbl 1032.11016)].

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