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Motivic classes of some classifying stacks

Algebraic Geometry 2018-08-14 v2

Abstract

We prove that the class of the classifying stack BPGLnB PGL_n is the multiplicative inverse of the class of the projective linear group PGLnPGL_n in the Grothendieck ring of stacks for n=2n = 2 and n=3n = 3 under mild conditions on the base field kk. In particular, although it is known that the multiplicativity relation {T}={S}{PGLn}\{T\} = \{S\}\cdot\{PGL_n\} does not hold for all PGLnPGL_n-torsors TST \to S, it holds for the universal PGLnPGL_n-torsors for said nn.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1409.5404,
  title  = {Motivic classes of some classifying stacks},
  author = {Daniel Bergh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.5404},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

25 pages. Final version

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