A finiteness theorem for special unitary groups of quaternionic skew-hermitian forms with good reduction
Abstract
Given a field equipped with a set of discrete valuations , we develop a general theory to relate reduction properties of skew-hermitian forms over a quaternion -algebra to quadratic forms over the function field obtained via Morita equivalence. Using this we show that if satisfies certain conditions, then the number of -isomorphism classes of the universal coverings of the special unitary groups of quaternionic skew-hermitian forms that have good reduction at all valuations in is finite and bounded by a value that depends on size of a quotient of the Picard group of and the size of the kernel and cokernel of residue maps in Galois cohomology of 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