An explicit KO‐degree map and applications

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Abstract: The goal of this note is to study the analog in unstable mathbbA1-homotopy theory of the unit map from the motivic sphere spectrum to the Hermitian K-theory spectrum, i.e., the degree map in Hermitian K-theory. We show that "Suslin matrices", which are explicit maps from odd dimensional split smooth affine quadrics to geometric models of the spaces appearing in Bott periodicity in Hermitian K-theory, stabilize in a suitable sense to the unit map. As applications, we deduce that KiMW(F)=GWii(F) for ileq3, which can be thought of as an extension of Matsumoto's celebrated theorem describing K2 of a field. These results provide the first step in a program aimed at computing the sheaf pinmathbbA1(mathbbAnsetminus0) for ngeq4.









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