karpenko at math.jussieu.fr
Submission: 2008, Dec 16, revised: 2009, Jan 07
We show that a non-hyperbolic hermitian form over a biquaternion algebra over a field of characteristic not 2 remains non-hyperbolic over a generic splitting field of the algebra.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 14L17; 14C25
Keywords and Phrases: Algebraic groups, projective homogeneous varieties, Chow groups, algebraic K-theory
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