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A finiteness theorem for special unitary groups of quaternionic skew-hermitian forms with good reduction

Algebraic Geometry 2020-08-26 v3

Abstract

Given a field KK equipped with a set of discrete valuations VV, we develop a general theory to relate reduction properties of skew-hermitian forms over a quaternion KK-algebra QQ to quadratic forms over the function field K(Q)K(Q) obtained via Morita equivalence. Using this we show that if (K,V)(K,V) satisfies certain conditions, then the number of KK-isomorphism classes of the universal coverings of the special unitary groups of quaternionic skew-hermitian forms that have good reduction at all valuations in VV is finite and bounded by a value that depends on size of a quotient of the Picard group of VV and the size of the kernel and cokernel of residue maps in Galois cohomology of KK with finite coefficients. As a corollary we prove a conjecture of Chernousov, Rapinchuk, Rapinchuk for groups of this type.

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@article{arxiv.1906.01414,
  title  = {A finiteness theorem for special unitary groups of quaternionic skew-hermitian forms with good reduction},
  author = {Srimathy Srinivasan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.01414},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Title and contents changed as per referee's suggestion. To appear in Documenta Math