English

Rationally Isomorphic Hermitian Forms and Torsors of Some Non-Reductive Groups

Rings and Algebras 2017-03-01 v4

Abstract

Let RR be a semilocal Dedekind domain. Under certain assumptions, we show that two (not necessarily unimodular) hermitian forms over an RR-algebra with involution, which are rationally ismorphic and have isomorphic semisimple coradicals, are in fact isomorphic. The same result is also obtained for quadratic forms equipped with an action of a finite group. The results have cohomological restatements that resemble the Grothendieck--Serre conjecture, except the group schemes involved are not reductive. We show that these group schemes are closely related to group schemes arising in Bruhat--Tits theory.

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@article{arxiv.1506.07147,
  title  = {Rationally Isomorphic Hermitian Forms and Torsors of Some Non-Reductive Groups},
  author = {Eva Bayer-Fluckiger and Uriya A. First},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.07147},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

27 pages. Changes from previous version: Section 5 was split into two sections, several proofs have been simplified, other mild modifications