Failure of the local-global principle for quadratic forms over function fields
Failure of the local-global principle for quadratic forms over function fields
Let be a finitely generated field of transcendence degree over an algebraically closed field of characteristic . A quadratic form is isotropic if it admits a nontrivial zero. For a discrete valuation on , let be the fraction field of the completion of its valuation ring. The local-global principle for isotropy in dimension over asserts that every quadratic form in variables over that is isotropic over for every discrete valuation on is isotropic over .
Failure of the local-global principle. The local-global principle for isotropy of quadratic forms fails to hold in dimension over .
This extends the known failure in transcendence degree two and gives the stated obstruction in every transcendence degree over an algebraically closed field of characteristic different from .
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Asher Auel and V. Suresh, “Failure of the local-global principle for isotropy of quadratic forms over function fields”, arXiv:1709.03707 (2023).
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