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Orthogonal involutions on central simple algebras and function fields of Severi-Brauer varieties (1807.07045v1)

Published 18 Jul 2018 in math.GR, math.KT, and math.RA

Abstract: An orthogonal involution $\sigma$ on a central simple algebra $A$, after scalar extension to the function field $\mathcal{F}(A)$ of the Severi--Brauer variety of $A$, is adjoint to a quadratic form $q_\sigma$ over $\mathcal{F}(A)$, which is uniquely defined up to a scalar factor. Some properties of the involution, such as hyperbolicity, and isotropy up to an odd-degree extension of the base field, are encoded in this quadratic form, meaning that they hold for the involution $\sigma$ if and only if they hold for $q_\sigma$. As opposed to this, we prove that there exists non-totally decomposable orthogonal involutions that become totally decomposable over $\mathcal{F}(A)$, so that the associated form $q_\sigma$ is a Pfister form. We also provide examples of nonisomorphic involutions on an index $2$ algebra that yield similar quadratic forms, thus proving that the form $q_\sigma$ does not determine the isomorphism class of $\sigma$, even when the underlying algebra has index $2$. As a consequence, we show that the $e_3$ invariant for orthogonal involutions is not classifying in degree $12$, and does not detect totally decomposable involutions in degree $16$, as opposed to what happens for quadratic forms.

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