Vishik's and Hoffmann's Pfister-neighbour conjectures for nondegenerate forms
Let be a nondegenerate anisotropic form, let be its associated variety, and let denote the set of upper motives appearing in the relevant motivic decomposition. Let be such that .
Vishik–Hoffmann conjectures. The following assertions should hold:
- If , then is a Pfister neighbour.
- If has maximal splitting and , then is a Pfister neighbour.
These are presented as essentially due to Vishik and Hoffmann, respectively. They connect motivic decomposition and maximal splitting to the Pfister-neighbour property; the source gives no resolution of either assertion.
References
Primary source
Stephen Scully and Guangzhao Zhu, “Rationality of cycles modulo 2 on products of generically smooth quadrics in characteristic 2”, arXiv:2510.22502 (2025).
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