{ "id": "1708.01782", "version": "v1", "published": "2017-08-05T15:42:55.000Z", "updated": "2017-08-05T15:42:55.000Z", "title": "Hyperbolicity over function fields of quadrics", "authors": [ "James O'Shea" ], "comment": "8 pages", "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "A strong consequence of quadratic forms becoming hyperbolic over the function field of a form is established. This result is invoked to obtain a new characterisation of hyperbolicity over function fields, and to recover a number of important established results in quadratic form theory by means of novel, short and elementary proofs.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2017-08-05T15:42:55.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11E04", "11E16", "11E81", "12F20", "14E05" ], "keywords": [ "function field", "hyperbolicity", "quadratic form theory", "strong consequence", "important established results" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 8, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }