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Local-global principles for constant reductive groups over semi-global fields

Algebraic Geometry 2023-07-12 v2

Abstract

We study local-global principles for torsors under reductive linear algebraic groups over semi-global fields; i.e., over one variable function fields over complete discretely valued fields. We provide conditions on the group and the semiglobal field under which the local-global principle holds, and we compute the obstruction to the local-global principle in certain classes of examples. Using our description of the obstruction, we give the first example of a semisimple simply connected group over a semi-global field where the local-global principle fails. Our methods include patching and R-equivalence.

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@article{arxiv.2108.12349,
  title  = {Local-global principles for constant reductive groups over semi-global fields},
  author = {Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène and David Harbater and Julia Hartmann and Daniel Krashen and R. Parimala and V. Suresh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.12349},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

59 pages. Some improved phrasing to clarify the presentation

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