Some criteria for stably birational equivalence of quadratic forms

Abstract

Let $\varphi$ and $\psi$ be quadratic forms over a field $K$ of characteristic different from 2. In this paper, we give a criterion for isotropy of $\varphi$ over the function field of $\psi$ in terms of representations and we apply it to stably birational equivalence of $\varphi$ and $\psi$. Then we use this criterion to investigate the case of stably birational equivalence of multiples of Pfister forms. Finally, we give a a criterion of stably birational equivalence of quadratic forms in terms of isomorphisms of quotients of special Clifford groups by the kernel of the spinor norm.