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Orthogonal involutions and totally singular quadratic forms in characteristic two (1701.02169v1)
Published 9 Jan 2017 in math.RA
Abstract: We associate to every central simple algebra with involution of orthogonal type in characteristic two a totally singular quadratic form which reflects certain anisotropy properties of the involution. It is shown that this quadratic form can be used to classify totally decomposable algebras with orthogonal involution. Also, using this form, a criterion is obtained for an orthogonal involution on a split algebra to be conjugated to the transpose involution.