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Abstract
We prove the last open case of the conjecture on the possible values of the first isotropy index of an anisotropic quadratic form over a field. It was initially stated by Detlev Hoffmann for fields of characteristic ̸= 2 and then extended to arbitrary characteristic by Burt Totaro. The initial statement was proven by the author in 2002. In characteristic 2, the case of a totally singular quadratic form was done by Stephen Scully in 2015 and the nonsingular case by Eric Primozic in early 2019.
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