Assembly of the Hasse–Minkowski principle over ℚ (WP6) #
This file assembles the local–global principle for quadratic forms over ℚ from the
rank-by-rank inputs proved in the earlier layers:
isotropic_of_rank_one/isotropic_of_rank_two(RankTwo.lean),isotropic_of_rank_three'(Legendre.lean),rankFourDiagonalHM(RankFour.lean, the diagonal rank-four case),RankFiveLeDiagonalHM(HighRank.lean, diagonal rank≥ 5).
The two diagonal ingredients RankFourDiagonalHM (RankFour.lean) and
RankFiveLeDiagonalHM (the WP5.3 induction, HighRank.lean) enter as explicit hypotheses
of the conditional hasseMinkowski_of and meyer_of; the unconditional hasseMinkowski
and meyer below specialise them with rankFourDiagonalHM and
rankFiveLeDiagonalHM rankFourDiagonalHM.
Main results #
isotropic_of_radical_ne_bot(WP6.1): a form with nonzero radical is isotropic, because a radical vectorxhasassociated Q x x = 0andassociated Q x x = 2 * Q x.hasseMinkowski_of(WP6.2):Isotropic Q ↔ EverywhereLocallyIsotropic Q.meyer_of(WP6.3): an indefinite form of rank≥ 5overℚis isotropic.
WP6.1 — a degenerate form is isotropic #
In characteristic different from 2 a nonzero vector of the radical satisfies
Q x = 0 (it is orthogonal to itself, and associated Q x x = 2 * Q x). This is the
"degenerate Q" case of the Hasse–Minkowski principle.
WP6.2 — the rank-by-rank dispatch on the diagonalized form #
A nondegenerate form is equivalent to a weighted sum of squares ⟨w₀, …, w_{n-1}⟩ with
nonzero rational weights. The local hypotheses of h4 and h5 are exactly the isotropy of
this diagonal form at every place, so we dispatch on n = finrank ℚ V: ranks 0, 1, 2,
3 are the proved layer results, rank 4 is h4, and rank ≥ 5 is h5.
WP6.3 — Meyer's theorem #
An indefinite real form of rank ≥ 5 is isotropic over ℝ; over each ℚ_[p] every form in
at least five variables is isotropic (isotropic_weightedSumSquares_of_five_le), and these
local data feed WP6.2.
The unconditional theorems #
With RankFourDiagonalHM proved in RankFour.lean and its rank-≥ 5 counterpart in
HighRank.lean, the conditional theorems above specialise to the targets: