More examples of non-rational adjoint groups

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2013.07.032MaRDI QIDQ405848zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nivedita Bhaskhar

Publication date 8 September 2014

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2143

zbMATH Keywords

adjoint groupsR-equivalencestable-rationality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over general fields (11E04) Algebraic theory of quadratic forms; Witt groups and rings (11E81) Quadratic spaces; Clifford algebras (11E88) Rationality questions in algebraic geometry (14E08) Rationally connected varieties (14M22) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

Abstract: We give a recursive construction to produce examples of quadratic forms q_n in the n-th power of the fundamental ideal in the Witt ring whose corresponding adjoint groups PSO(q_n) are not stably rational. Computations of the R-equivalence classes of adjoint classical groups by A.S. Merkurjev are used to show that these groups are not R-trivial. This extends earlier results of A.S. Merkurjev and P.Gille where the forms considered have non-trivial and trivial discriminants respectively.

Review text

A recursive construction is given to produce for each positive \(n\) a field \(k_n\) of characteristic zero together with a quadratic form \(q_n\) in the \(n\)-th power of the fundamental ideal in the Witt ring of quadratic forms over \(k_n\), such that the corresponding adjoint group \(\text{PSO}(q_n)\) is not stably rational. The proof is based on the computation by \textit{A. S. Merkurjev} [Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 84, 189--213 (1996; Zbl 0884.20029)] of the R-equivalence classes of adjoint classical groups. The recursion starts with an example of Merkurjev that has non-trivial discriminant. The paper generalizes work of \textit{P. Gille} [J. Algebra 193, No. 2, 728--747 (1997; Zbl 0911.14026)], who produced an example with trivial discriminant.

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