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Certaines formes quadratiques de dimensin au plus 6 et corps des fonctions en caractéristique 2

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LetF be a field of characteristic 2. The aim of this paper is to study the isotropy of someF-quadratic forms of dimension ≤6 over the function field of a projective quadric.

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Laghribi, A. Certaines formes quadratiques de dimensin au plus 6 et corps des fonctions en caractéristique 2. Isr. J. Math. 129, 317–361 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02773169

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