Here’s a fun problem that came up in a talk by Jacob Tsimerman on Monday concerning some joint work with Andrew Snowden:
Problem: Let \(D/\mathbf{Q}(t)\) be a quaternion algebra such that the specialization \(D_t\) splits for almost all \(t\). Then show that \(D\) itself is split.
As a comparison, if you replace \(\mathbf{Q}\) by \(\overline{\mathbf{Q}}\), then although the condition that \(D_t\) splits becomes empty, the conclusion is still true, by Tsen’s theorem.
This definitely *feels* like the type of question which should have a slick solution; can you find one?
Does it not follow from Faddeev (http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=47632) ?
Perhaps? I confess that it is not obvious to me that it does.