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For quadratic forms in 4 variables defined over the rational function field in one variable over \(\mathbb C(\!(t)\!)\), the validity of the local-global principle for isotropy with respect to different sets of discrete valuations is examined.
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The author wishes to thank David Leep, Suresh Venapally, Karim Johannes Becher, Gonzalo Manzano Flores, and Marco Zaninelli for many inspiring discussions and comments related to this article. This article is based on the author’s PhD-thesis, prepared under the supervision of Karim Johannes Becher (Universiteit Antwerpen) and Arno Fehm (Technische Universität Dresden) in the framework of a joint PhD at Universiteit Antwerpen and Universität Konstanz.
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This work was supported by the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen (FWO) in the FWO Odysseus Programme (project ‘Explicit Methods in Quadratic Form Theory’), the Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds (BOF), University of Antwerp (project BOF-DOCPRO-4, 2865), and the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India (Grant CRG/2019/000271).
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Gupta, P. Four-dimensional quadratic forms over \(\mathbb C(\!(t)\!)(X)\). Arch. Math. 117, 369–374 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-021-01626-9
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