manfred.knebusch@mathematik.uni-regensburg.de
rehmann@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de
Submission: 2000, Feb. 11
published in: E. Bayer-Fluckiger e.a., Proceedings of the Conference on ``Quadratic Forms and their Applications'' in Dublin, July 4-10, 1999. Contemp. Math. 272 (2000), 173-199.
This manuscript describes how a generic splitting tower of a regular anisotropic quadratic form digests the form down to a form which is totally split.
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification: 11E04, 11E81
Keywords and Phrases: quadratic forms, generic splitting
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