Roland Lötscher, Mark MacDonald, Aurel Meyer and Zinovy Reichstein: Essential p-dimension of algebraic tori

reichst@math.ubc.ca

Submission: 2009, Oct 28

The essential dimension is a numerical invariant of an algebraic group G which may be thought of as a measure of complexity of G-torsors over fields. A recent theorem of N. Karpenko and A. Merkurjev gives a simple formula for the essential dimension of a finite p-group. We obtain similar formulas for the essential p-dimension of a broader class of groups, which includes all algebraic tori.

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 20G15

Keywords and Phrases: Essential dimension, algebraic torus, twisted finite group, lattice

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