Scully's refined splitting-pattern conjecture for quadratic forms
Scully's refined splitting-pattern conjecture for quadratic forms
Let be a field of characteristic different from , and let and be anisotropic quadratic forms over of dimension at least . Let be the height of the splitting pattern of , and let be its successive higher anisotropic kernels. Set , and choose with and . Let be the unique non-negative integer satisfying
and suppose that . For each with , Scully's refined conjecture. There exist integers and integers with such that
and, with at most one exception, either
or
The possible exception is when ; then and . This conjecture refines the dimension-and-Witt-index conjecture to the full splitting pattern of . The source proves it when or when , while the general statement was presented as conjectural.
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Primary source
Stephen Scully, “Hyperbolicity and near hyperbolicity of quadratic forms over function fields of quadrics”, arXiv:1609.07100 (2017).
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