Essential dimension of the spin groups in characteristic 2

DOI10.4171/CMH/452MaRDI QIDQ2416396zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Burt Totaro

Publication date 23 May 2019

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.05959

zbMATH Keywords

orthogonal groupcohomological invariantessential dimensionspin grouptorsorPfister formétale motivic cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Étale and other Grothendieck topologies and (co)homologies (14F20) Motivic cohomology; motivic homotopy theory (14F42) Quadratic forms over general fields (11E04) Galois cohomology of linear algebraic groups (11E72) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

Abstract: We determine the essential dimension of the spin group Spin(n) as an algebraic group over a field of characteristic 2, for n at least 15. In this range, the essential dimension is the same as in characteristic not 2. In particular, it is exponential in n. This is surprising in that the essential dimension of the orthogonal groups is smaller in characteristic 2. We also find the essential dimension of Spin(n) in characteristic 2 for n at most 10.

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