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Is an orthogonal direct sum decomposition with respect to two quadratic forms necessarily unique up to isomorphism
Consider two quadratic forms $Q$ and $P$ over a finite dimensional vector space $V$ over a quadratically closed (or perhaps Pythagorean) field $F$. If $V$ can be decomposed as $V = V_1 \oplus V_2 \...
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