A variant of the Springer Theorem, by Ivan Panin and Ulf Rehmann

In this preprint we consider a noetherian local ring with an infinite residue field of characteristic different of 2 and a quadratic space over the ring. Assuming that the space becomes isotropic over a finite etale extension of odd degree we prove that the space is isotropic over the original ring too.

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