Gerbal central extensions of reductive groups by K₃

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2015.07.034MaRDI QIDQ745153zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pavel Safronov

Publication date 13 October 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.4113

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathcal K_3\)-central extension\(K\)-cohomologyBrylinski-Deligne spectral sequencesplit reductive groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic cycles (14C25) Applications of methods of algebraic (K)-theory in algebraic geometry (14C35) Central extensions and Schur multipliers (19C09) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

Abstract: We classify central extensions of a reductive group $G$ by $mathcal{K}_3$ and $Bmathcal{K}_3$, the sheaf of third Quillen $K$-theory groups and its classifying stack. These turn out to be parametrized by the group of Weyl-invariant quadratic forms on the cocharacter lattice valued in $k^{i}mes$ and the group of integral Weyl-invariant cubic forms on the cocharacter lattice respectively.

Review text

Let \(\mathcal K_3\) be the Zariski sheaf of third Quillen \(K\)-groups and let \(G\) be a split connected reductive group with a simply-connected derived group over a field \(k\) with the Weyl group \(W\). It is shown that the group of isomorphism classes of central extensions of \(G\) by \(\mathcal K_3\) is isomorphic to the group of \(W\)-invariant \(k^\times\)-valued quadratic forms on the cocharacter lattice \(Y=\mathrm{Hom}(\mathbb{G}_m, T_G)\). Yet another result of the paper is that the group of isomorphism classes of gerbal central extensions of \(G\) by \(B\mathcal K_3\) is isomorphic to the group of \(W\)-invariant integer-valued cubic forms on \(Y\). The main ingredient in the proof is the calculation of cohomology groups \(H^\bullet(B_\bullet G, \mathcal K_3)\) of the classifying space \(B_\bullet G\), which in turn depends on the calculation of cohomology groups \(H^\bullet(G, \mathcal K_3)\). The latter is performed by means of Brylinski-Deligne spectral sequence and is parallel to the computation of \(H^\bullet(G, \mathcal K_2)\) given in \S 4 of [\textit{J.-L. Brylinski} and \textit{P. Deligne}, Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 94, 5--85 (2001; Zbl 1093.20027)].

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