Essential dimension, spinor groups, and quadratic forms

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2010.171.533zbMATH Open1252.11034arXiv0907.0922OpenAlexW2964216498WikidataQ117360334 ScholiaQ117360334MaRDI QIDQ974047FDOQ974047

Patrick Brosnan, Angelo Vistoli, Zinovy Reichstein

Publication date: 27 May 2010

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that the essential dimension of the spinor group Spin_n grows exponentially with n; in particular, we give a precise formula for this essential dimension when n is not divisible by 4. We use this result to show that the number of 3-fold Pfister forms needed to represent the Witt class of a general quadratic form of rank n with trivial discriminant and Hasse-Witt invariant grows exponentially with n. This paper overlaps with our earlier preprint arXiv:math/0701903 . That preprint has splintered into several parts, which have since acquired a life of their own. In particular, see "Essential dimension of moduli of curves and other algebraic stacks", by the same authors, and "Some consequences of the Karpenko-Merkurjev theorem", by Meyer and Reichstein (arXiv:0811.2517).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0922

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zbMATH Keywords

discriminantquadratic formsessential dimensionWitt groupPfister formspinor groupHasse-Witt invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over general fields (11E04) Galois cohomology of linear algebraic groups (11E72) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66)

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