Embeddings of maximal tori in classical groups over local and global fields (Q2827306)

The main result of the paper gives necessary and sufficient conditions for embeddings of maximal tori in classical groups over a field \(K\) where \(K\) is a local field of characteristic \(\neq 2\) or the field of real numbers. The case of a global field \(K\) was already completed in [the first author et al., Pac. J. Math. 279, No. 1--2, 87--100 (2015; Zbl 1364.20037)]. Embeddings of maximal tori in classical groups can be described in terms of embeddings of étale algebras with involutions in central simple algebras with an involution satisfying a dimension condition established by [\textit{G. Prasad} and \textit{A. S. Rapinchuk}, Comment. Math. Helv. 85, No. 3, 583--645 (2010; Zbl 1223.11047)]. The results can be used to give a new proof of a result of Prasad and Rapinchuk [loc. cit.] concerning algebras with orthogonal involutions with the same invariant subalgebra.