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QUADRATICPAIRSINCHARACTERISTIC2ANDTHEWITT CANCELLATIONTHEOREM MOHAMED ABDOU ELOMARY Received 28October 2002 Wede?netheorthogonal sumofquadratic pairsandweshowthatthereisnoWitt cancellation theorem forthis operation incharacteristic 2. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classi?cation: 16K20. 1. Introduction. Quadraticpairsoncentralsimplealgebraswerede?nedin [5].Theyplaythesameroleforquadraticformsasinvolutionsforsymmetricor skew-symmetricbilinearforms.Inparticular,theycanbeusedtode?netwisted orthogonal groups in characteristic 2. In this paper, a notion of orthogonal sum of quadratic pairs is in