Subtle characteristic classes and Hermitian forms

DOI10.25537/DM.2019V24.2493-2523MaRDI QIDQ2288205zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Fabio Tanania

Publication date 17 January 2020

Published in Documenta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.05579

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zbMATH Keywords

characteristic classes motivic cohomology Hermitian forms Nisnevich classifying space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Motivic cohomology; motivic homotopy theory (14F42) Bilinear and Hermitian forms (11E39) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40)

Abstract: Following [14], we compute the motivic cohomology ring of the Nisnevich classifying space of the unitary group associated to the standard split hermitian form of a quadratic extension. This provides us with subtle characteristic classes which take value in the motivic cohomology of the v{C}ech simplicial scheme associated to a hermitian form. Comparing these new classes with subtle Stiefel-Whitney classes arising in the orthogonal case, we obtain relations among the latter ones holding in the motivic cohomology of the v{C}ech simplicial scheme associated to a quadratic form divisible by a 1-fold Pfister form. Moreover, we present a description of the motive of the torsor corresponding to a hermitian form in terms of its subtle characteristic classes.

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