Quasi-Pfister divisibility conjecture for quasilinear forms

Let nn be a positive integer, and let ϕ\phi be an anisotropic quasilinear quadratic form over FF of dimension 2n+12^{n+1}, with first higher isotropy index i1(ϕ)=2n1\mathfrak{i}_{1}(\phi)=2^{n-1}. An (n1)(n-1)-fold quasi-Pfister form is a tensor product of n1n-1 one-fold quasi-Pfister forms.

Quasi-Pfister divisibility conjecture. The form ϕ\phi is divisible by an (n1)(n-1)-fold quasi-Pfister form.

The conjecture is directly analogous to an open problem for nonsingular quadratic forms and concerns classification in an extremal first-isotropy-index case. Its status is open in the source.

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Stephen Scully, “Hoffmann's conjecture for totally singular forms of prime degree”, arXiv:1410.8785 (2014).

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