Abstract
We prove that the essential dimension of the spinor group $\mathbf{Spin}_n$ grows exponentially with $n$ and use this result to show that quadratic forms with trivial discriminant and Hasse-Witt invariant are more complex, in high dimensions, than previously expected.
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