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\'Etale homotopy groups of algebraic groups and homogeneous spaces

Algebraic Geometry 2022-06-23 v2

Abstract

We show the vanishing of the second homotopy group of the \'etale homotopy type of a smooth connected algebraic group over a separably closed field, completed away from the characteristic. This is an algebraic analogue of a classical theorem of Elie Cartan. Based on this result, we establish an explicit formula for the similarly completed second homotopy group of a homogeneous space.

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@article{arxiv.1701.04867,
  title  = {\'Etale homotopy groups of algebraic groups and homogeneous spaces},
  author = {Cyril Demarche and Tamás Szamuely},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.04867},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

v2: major revision, some inaccurate statements in the first version corrected