Totaro's birational product 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. A subquadric X′⊂XX'\subset X is a quadric contained in XX. Totaro's birational product conjecture. The quadric XX should be birational to

X′×Pki1(X)−1X'\times\mathbb{P}_k^{\mathfrak{i}_1(X)-1}

for some subquadric X′⊂XX'\subset X of codimension i1(X)−1\mathfrak{i}_1(X)-1. This is a more precise formulation of the ruledness conjecture; the source presents it as an open conjecture related to Totaro's work.

References

Primary source

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

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