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Communications in Algebra

Volume 33, Issue 7, 2005

On the U-Invariant of P-Adic Function Fields

On the U-Invariant of P-Adic Function Fields

DOI:
10.1081/AGB-200063598
Karim Zahidia*

pages 2307-2314

Available online: 03 Sep 2006

ABSTRACT

We show that a quadratic form defined over the rational function field (x 1 , …, x n ) of dimension at least 4.2 n  + 1 is isotropic over all fields p (x 1 , …, x n ), except for finitely many primes. Partial results concerning the u-invariant of p-adic function fields are also shown.

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  • Citation information:
  • Available online: 03 Sep 2006

Author affiliations

  • a Equipe de Logique Mathématique, UFR de Mathématiques, Université Denis-Diderot, Paris, France

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Taylor & Francis Group