Fields where torsion forms decompose
Abstract
Over a real field which is an extension of transcendence degree 1 of a hereditarily pythagorean base field, every quadratic form which is torsion decomposes into an orthogonal sum of 2-dimensional torsion forms. This is obtained from a more general study of weakly isotropic forms over henselian valued fields and over function fields in one variable.
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