{ "id": "2401.00537", "version": "v1", "published": "2023-12-31T16:51:56.000Z", "updated": "2023-12-31T16:51:56.000Z", "title": "Anisotropy of quadratic forms over a global field of odd characteristic is diophantine", "authors": [ "Guang Hu" ], "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "We prove that the anisotropy of quadratic forms over any global field of characteristic not equal to 2 is diophantine, by using a generalization of the method of Koenigsmann and some known results in diophantine sets and quadratic forms.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2023-12-31T16:51:56.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "quadratic forms", "global field", "odd characteristic", "anisotropy" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }