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Spinor Groups with Good Reduction

Number Theory 2019-03-14 v4

Abstract

Let KK be a 2-dimensional global field of characteristic 2\neq 2, and let VV be a divisorial set of places of KK. We show that for a given n5n \geqslant 5, the set of KK-isomorphism classes of spinor groups G=Spinn(q)G = \mathrm{Spin}_n(q) of nondegenerate nn-dimensional quadratic forms over KK that have good reduction at all vVv \in V, is finite. This result yields some other finiteness properties, such as the finiteness of the genus genK(G)\mathbf{gen}_K(G) and the properness of the global-to-local map in Galois cohomology. The proof relies on the finiteness of the unramified cohomology groups Hi(K,μ2)VH^i(K , \mu_2)_V for i1i \geqslant 1 established in the paper. The results for spinor groups are then extended to some unitary groups and to groups of type G2\textsf{G}_2.

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@article{arxiv.1707.08062,
  title  = {Spinor Groups with Good Reduction},
  author = {Vladimir I. Chernousov and Andrei S. Rapinchuk and Igor A. Rapinchuk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.08062},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Added dedication and made minor stylistic changes. To appear in Compositio Mathematica