Galois cohomology of the classical groups over fields of cohomological dimension \(\leq 2\)
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Galois cohomology of the classical groups over fields of cohomological dimension \(\leq 2\)
zbMATH Open document ID: 0851.11024
DOI: 10.1007/BF01231443
author: Eva Bayer-Fluckiger
author: R. Parimala
published in: Inventiones Mathematicae
publication date: 1996-11-25T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/144319
review text: This carefully written paper concerns the following well-known conjecture of \textit{J.-P. Serre} [Cohomologie galoisienne (Springer 1964; Zbl 0128.26303) and (1994; Zbl 0812.12002), see also Sémin. Bourbaki, Vol. 1993/94, Exp. 783 (1995; Zbl 0837.12003)]: Conjecture II: Let \(k\) be a perfect field with \(\text{cd} (\Gamma_k) \leq 2\). Let \(G\) be a semisimple, simply connected linear algebraic group defined over \(k\). Then \(H^1 (k,G) = 0\). The main theorem is the following: ``The above conjecture holds for the classical groups of types \(A_n, B_n, C_n\) or \(D_n\)''. By Serre's recent work the same is true for exceptional groups of type \(G_2\) or \(F_4\) (the proof is repeated in \S 6 of the present paper). The cases \(E_6, E_7, E_8\) and trialitarian \(D_4\) are still open. By a classical result of Weil the four types of (almost simple) groups \(G\) correspond to \(SL_n(D)\), \(SU(h)\), \(U(h)\) and Spin \((h)\) where \(D\) is a division algebra over \(k\) and \(h\) is a hermitian form over \(D\) of unitary, symplectic or orthogonal type. In the first case the theorem is due to Merkurjev and Suslin (1985), and the other cases are settled in the present paper. Naturally a large part of the paper deals with hermitian forms \(h\) and conditions on \(h\) to be hyperbolic. A decisive role is played by the key exact sequence of \S 3 between the Witt groups of the various types of hermitian forms over central simple algebras with involution. The case \(\text{char} k = 2\), which is slightly exceptional, is treated in Appendix 1. But as for \(\text{char} k \neq 2\) the orthogonal case (type \(D_n)\) is the most difficult.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11E57
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 12G05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20G15
zbMATH DE Number: 861962
zbMATH Keywords: Galois cohomology
zbMATH Keywords: classical groups
zbMATH Keywords: Witt groups
zbMATH Keywords: hermitian forms over central simple algebras
Wikidata QID: Q56806710
reviewed by: Albrecht Pfister
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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