φ : V₁ ≃ₗ V₂ is an isometry of formed spaces with respect to B₁ and B₂
if it preserves the bilinear forms.
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Orthogonal direct sum of two bilinear forms B_U on U and B_W on W.
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Evaluation formula for the orthogonal direct sum bilinear form.
A bilinear form is nondegenerate (in the orthogonal-complement sense) if the orthogonal complement of the whole space is trivial.
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A bilinear form is symmetric: B x y = B y x for all x, y.
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Witt extension lemma: any isometry φ : U ⊕ V ≃ U ⊕ W can be modified to
an isometry Ψ of the same formed spaces that fixes the U-summand pointwise.
If Ψ is an isometry of U ⊕ V and U ⊕ W fixing the U-summand, then the
first component of Ψ (0, v) vanishes for every v ∈ V.
Extract a linear equivalence V ≃ₗ W from a U-fixing isometry Ψ of
U ⊕ V and U ⊕ W, by sending v to the second component of Ψ (0, v).
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The extracted linear equivalence V ≃ₗ W is an isometry of the formed
spaces (V, B_V) and (W, B_W).
Witt cancellation for orthogonal direct sums: if U ⊕ V is isometric to
U ⊕ W (with the same nondegenerate U-summand), then V is isometric to W.