Quasilinear quadratic forms and function fields of quadrics

DOI10.1007/S00209-019-02312-XMaRDI QIDQ2305680zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephen Scully

Publication date 11 March 2020

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.09692

zbMATH Keywords

quadratic formisotropyfunction field of a quadricquasi-Pfister formquasi-Pfister neighborisotropy indexquasilinear quadratic form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rational and birational maps (14E05) Quadratic forms over general fields (11E04)

Abstract: Let $p$ and $q$ be anisotropic quadratic forms of dimension $geq2$ over a field $F$. In a recent article, we formulated a conjecture describing the general constraints which the dimensions of $p$ and $q$ impose on the isotropy index of $q$ after scalar extension to the function field of $p$. This can be viewed as a generalization of Hoffmann's Separation Theorem which simultaneously incorporates and refines some well-known classical results on the Witt kernels of function fields of quadrics. Using algebro-geometric methods, it was shown that large parts of this conjecture hold in the case where the characteristic of $F$ is not 2. In the present article, we prove similar (in fact, slightly stronger) results in the case where $F$ has characteristic $2$ and $q$ is a so-called quasilinear form. In contrast to the situation where $mathrmchar(F)eq2$, the methods used to treat this case are purely algebraic.

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