Common Slots of Bilinear and Quadratic Pfister Forms
Abstract
We show that over any field F of char(F)=2 and 2-rank n, there exist 2n bilinear n-fold Pfister forms that have no slot in common. This answers a question of Becher's in the negative. We provide an analogous result also for quadratic Pfister forms.
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