On Anisotropy of Orthogonal Involutions
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We show that an orthogonal involution of a central division algebra D (over a field of characteristic not 2) remains anisotropic over the generic splitting field of D. We also give a couple of other applications of the same technique.
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تاریخ انتشار 2016