manuel.ojanguren@epfl.ch, panin@pdmi.ras.ru, kirill@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de
Submission: 2004, Aug 31
This is an extended and revised version of the Preprint SFB478, Muenster. We prove a version of Knebusch's Norm Principle for finite etale extensions of semi-local Noetherian domains with infinite residue fields of characteristic different from 2. As an application we prove Grothendieck's conjecture on principal homogeneous spaces for the spinor group of a quadratic space.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 20G35, 13H05
Keywords and Phrases: quadratic space, spinor group, local ring
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