Nikita A. Karpenko: Hyperbolicity of hermitian forms over biquaternion algebras

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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