Upper motives of products of projective linear groups (Q2860848)

Let \(G\) be the product \(\mathrm{PGL}_1(A_1) \times \ldots \times \mathrm{PGL}_1(A_n)\) of the projective linear groups associated with some central simple algebras \(A_1, \dots, A_n\) over some field \(F\). \textit{N. A. Karpenko} [J. Reine Angew. Math. 677, 179--198 (2013; Zbl 1267.14009)] defines the upper \(p\)-motive of any \(G\)-homogeneous variety \(X\) to be that indecomposable summand of the Chow motive of~\(X\) with coefficients in \(\mathbb{F}_p\) whose zero-codimensional Chow group is non-zero. The paper under review gives a complete classification of these upper motives in terms of the Brauer group of \(F\) if \(n=1\). This leads to a certain surprising dichotomy. The author proves classification results also for \(n >1\), but the situation is less rigid there as shown by some counterexamples. The proofs involve studying rational maps between generalised Severi-Brauer varieties.