Essential dimension, spinor groups, and quadratic forms

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2010.171.533MaRDI QIDQ974047zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Patrick Brosnan, Zinovy Reichstein, Angelo Vistoli

Publication date 27 May 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0922, http://annals.princeton.edu/annals/2010/171-1/p12.xhtml

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)

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).

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