English

On the motivic class of the classifying stack of $G_2$ and the spin groups

Algebraic Geometry 2017-08-18 v2

Abstract

We compute the class of the classifying stack of the exceptional algebraic group G2G_2 and of the spin groups Spin7\mathrm{Spin}_7 and Spin8\mathrm{Spin}_8 in the Grothendieck ring of stacks, and show that they are equal to the inverse of the class of the corresponding group. Furthermore, we show that the computation of the motivic classes of the stacks BSpinn\mathscr{B}\mathrm{Spin}_n can be reduced to the computation of the classes of BΔn\mathscr{B} \Delta_n, where ΔnPinn\Delta_n\subset \mathrm{Pin}_n is the "extraspecial 22-group", the preimage of the diagonal matrices under the projection PinnOn\mathrm{Pin}_n\to \mathrm{O}_n to the orthogonal group.

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@article{arxiv.1702.02649,
  title  = {On the motivic class of the classifying stack of $G_2$ and the spin groups},
  author = {Roberto Pirisi and Mattia Talpo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.02649},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Final version, to appear in IMRN