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Isotropic Torsors on Smooth Algebras over Pr\"ufer Rings

Algebraic Geometry 2025-06-10 v2

Abstract

The Grothendieck--Serre conjecture predicts that every generically trivial torsor under a reductive group over a regular semilocal ring is itself trivial. Extending the work of \v{C}esnavi\v{c}ius and Fedorov, we prove a non-noetherian analogue of this conjecture for rings AA that are semilocalisations of smooth schemes over valuation rings of rank one, and for reductive AA-group schemes GG that are totally isotropic. Roughly speaking, such group schemes are characterised by the existence of a parabolic subgroup of their adjoint quotients. Since quasi-split groups are totally isotropic, our result, in particular, generalises the Grothendieck--Serre result of Guo--Liu and the author's thesis. Our proof relies on a new instance of Gabber's presentation lemma, obtained by extending techniques developed in the author's thesis.

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@article{arxiv.2505.04760,
  title  = {Isotropic Torsors on Smooth Algebras over Pr\"ufer Rings},
  author = {Arnab Kundu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.04760},
  year   = {2025}
}

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