On the second cohomology of the norm one group of a p-adic division algebra

Abstract: Let

F

be a

p

-adic field, that is, a finite extension of

m a t h b b Q_{p}

. Let

D

be a finite-dimensional central division algebra over

F

and let

S L_{1} (D)

be the group of elements of reduced norm

1

in

D

. Prasad and Raghunathan proved that

H^{2} (S L_{1} (D), m a t h b b R / m a t h b b Z)

is a cyclic

p

-group whose order is bounded from below by the number of

p

-power roots of unity in

F

, unless

D

is a quaternion algebra over

m a t h b b Q_{2}

. In this paper we give an explicit upper bound for the order of

H^{2} (S L_{1} (D), m a t h b b R / m a t h b b Z)

for

p g e q 5

and determine

H^{2} (S L_{1} (D), m a t h b b R / m a t h b b Z)

precisely when

F

is cyclotomic,

p g e q 19

and the degree of

D

is not a power of

p

.

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