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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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Totally isotropic space for bilinear pairing over ring

A duplicate of this: Consider the following well-known inequality: Let $b$ be a non-degenerate symmetric bilinear pairing over a (finite-dimensional) $\mathbb F$-vector space $V$ and $W$ a totally ...
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