Abstract
An orthogonal involution on a central simple algebra becoming isotropic over any splitting field of the algebra, becomes isotropic over a finite odd degree extension of the base field (provided that the characteristic of the base field is not 2). The proof makes use of a structure theorem for Chow motives with finite coefficients of projective homogeneous varieties, of incompressibility of certain generalized Severi-Brauer varieties, and of Steenrod operations.
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