Unramified cohomology, \(\mathbb A^1\)-connectedness, and the Chevalley-Warning problem in Grothendieck ring (Q447891)

The author studies the Chevalley-Warning problem in the Grothendieck ring \(K-0(Var/k)\). It is shown that the \(\mathbf A^1\)-homotopy theory yields well-defined invariants on \(K-0(Var/k)/\mathbf L\), in particular, the Brauer group is such an invariant. The author uses this to give a concrete counter-example to the Chevalley-Warning conjecture over a \(C-1\)-field. This also gives a negative answer to the question in \textit{E. Bilgin}'s PhD thesis [``Classes of some hypersurfaces in the Grothendieck ring of varieties'', Universität Duisburg-Essen (2011)].