Totaro's ruledness conjecture for anisotropic quadrics

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Let XX be an anisotropic quadric over a field kk. Write i1(X)\mathfrak{i}_1(X) for its first Witt index, and say that XX is ruled if it is birational to Y×Pk1Y\times\mathbb{P}_k^1 for some variety YY over kk. Totaro's ruledness conjecture. The quadric XX is ruled if and only if

i1(X)>1.\mathfrak{i}_1(X)>1.

The theorem that anisotropic quadrics with first Witt index 11 are not ruled proves one direction; the converse and the full equivalence remain open in the source.

References

Primary source

Stephen Scully, “Rational morphisms between quasilinear hypersurfaces”, arXiv:1111.3869 (2011).

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