Outer automorphisms of algebraic groups and determining groups by their maximal tori. (Q1940056)

The main goal of this paper is to fill in an important missing case of a structural result about linear algebraic groups which goes back to \textit{G. Prasad} and \textit{A. S. Rapinchuk} [Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 109, 113-184 (2009; Zbl 1176.22011)]. Essentially, this result allows one to recognise a simple algebraic group over a number field \(K\) knowing just the \(K\)-isomorphism classes of its maximal \(K\)-tori. The original proof [in loc. cit.] omitted the case of groups of type \(D_{2n}\) for \(2n\geq 4\), although the case of \(2n\geq 6\) was later filled in by the same authors. In this paper the author presents a new proof of the \(2n\geq 6\) case and also settles the case of \(2n=4\).