Characteristic classes for GO(2n) in étale cohomology

DOI10.1007/S12044-013-0121-ZMaRDI QIDQ2377080zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Saurav Bhaumik

Publication date 27 June 2013

Published in Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4628

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic stackscharacteristic classesétale cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of methods of algebraic (K)-theory in algebraic geometry (14C35) Étale and other Grothendieck topologies and (co)homologies (14F20) Higher symbols, Milnor (K)-theory (19D45)

Abstract: Let GO(2n) be the general orthogonal group (the group of similitudes) over any algebraically closed field of characteristic not equal to 2. We determine the etale cohomology ring with mod 2 coefficients of the algebraic stack BGO(2n). In the topological category, Y. Holla and N. Nitsure determined the singular cohomology ring of the classifying space BGO(2n) of the complex Lie group GO(2n) in terms of explicit generators and relations. We extend their results to the algebraic category. The chief ingredients in this are (i) an extension to etale cohomology of an idea of Totaro, originally used in the context of Chow groups, which allows us to approximate the classifying stack by quasi projective schemes; and (ii) construction of a Gysin sequence for the G_m fibration BO(2n) to BGO(2n) of algebraic stacks.

Review text

Let \(\mathrm{GO}(n)\) denote the subgroup of \(\mathrm{GL}(n)\) consisting of matrices \(A\) such that \(A^t A = \lambda I_n\) for some nonzero scalar \(\lambda\). \textit{Y. I. Holla} and \textit{N. Nitsure} [Asian J. Math. 5, No. 1, 169--182 (2001; Zbl 1012.55022)] determined the mod 2 singular cohomology of \(\mathrm{BGO}(2n)\), the classifying space for \(\mathrm{GO}(2n)\). The paper under review generalizes this result to the case of the classifying stack of \(\mathrm{GO}(2n)\), viewed as an algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of characteristic different from 2. In other words, the smooth-étale cohomology with \(\mathbb{F}_2\) coefficients of the algebraic stack \(\mathrm{BGO}(2n)\) is determined. The key to the proof, which was also used in [loc. cit.], is the Gysin sequence associated to the \(\mathbb{G}_m\)-torsor \(BO(n) \to \mathrm{BGO}(n)\). Since the cohomology of \(\mathrm{BO}(n)\) is known, the author is able to compute the cohomology of \(\mathrm{BGO}(n)\).

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