Excellent Special Orthogonal Groups

In this paper we give a complete classification of excellent special orthogonal groups SO(q) where q is a regular quadratic form over a field of characteristic 0.

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 11E81, 11E04

Keywords and Phrases: Quadratic forms, Pfister forms and neighbors, quasi-excellent forms and sequences

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