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When is a bilinear form equivalent to a trace form?

Associated to a finite, separable field extension $L/K$, there is a natural nondegenerate bilinear form, the trace form, defined by $$\langle x,y \rangle := \mathrm{Tr}_{L/K}(xy)$$ Now, given a ...
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