JournalscmhVol. 91, No. 3pp. 493–518

Degree three cohomological invariants of reductive groups

  • Donald Laackman

    University of California, Los Angeles, USA

  • Alexander Merkurjev

    University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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Abstract

We study the degree 3 cohomological invariants with coefficients in of a split reductive group over an arbitrary field. As an application, we compute the group of reductive indecomposable degree 3 invariants of all split simple algebraic groups.

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Donald Laackman, Alexander Merkurjev, Degree three cohomological invariants of reductive groups. Comment. Math. Helv. 91 (2016), no. 3, pp. 493–518

DOI 10.4171/CMH/393