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arxiv: 1510.06803 · v2 · pith:H6JZ7WU7new · submitted 2015-10-23 · 🧮 math.AG · math.NT

Regular pairs of quadratic forms on odd-dimensional spaces in characteristic 2

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We describe a normal form for a smooth intersection of two quadrics in even-dimensional projective space over an arbitrary field of characteristic 2. We use this to obtain a description of the automorphism group of such a variety. As an application, we show that every quartic del Pezzo surface over a perfect field of characteristic 2 has a canonical rational point and, thus, is unirational.

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