Hasse invariant of a quadratic form
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For a nondegenerate diagonal quadratic form , this product of quadratic Hilbert symbols is independent of diagonalization. Over a p-adic field, dimension, determinant square class and this invariant classify the form up to isometry. The product of the local invariants of a globally diagonalized form is one by the Hilbert reciprocity law; real places additionally record signature.
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