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Lectures on Norm Varieties

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I am Member of the School of Mathematics at IAS for the Academic Year 1999/2000, participating in the Motivic Homotopy Theory Program. For more informations about me see my regular home page.

This page contains informations about the "Lectures on Norm Varieties", a series of talks held at IAS during the winter term 1999 and the spring term 2000.

The lectures take place weekly in the Math building on Wednesdays, room M-101, 2:00 pm. First lecture on Oct. 6, no lecture on Nov. 24, last lecture in 1999 on Dec. 8. To be continued on Jan. 19, 2000. No lectures on March 15, March 22. Additional lecture on Friday, March 31, 2:00 pm; further on Friday, April 7, 2:00 pm, West Building Lecture Hall, on Monday, April 10, 2:00 pm, and on Tuesday, April 11, 2:00 pm. No lecture on April 12 and thereafter, except for the last three lectures on Wednesday, May 17, 2:00 pm, Monday, May 22, 2:00 pm, and Wednesday, May 24, 2:00 pm. Check also the announcement of the Mathematics Seminars.

Related literature can be found below.

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Here are two little impressions:

An identity in K₂

This is an identity in K₂ of a field:

Check it (without using a pencil!) by comparing residues on K₂k(x,y).

For applications of this identity to Galois cohomology see [Haile et al., 1996].

The fundamental relation in cobordism

Every 1-dimensional closed manifold M is a boundary:

Here S²M denotes the symmetric square (M×M)/(Z/2) of M.

There is a generalization to higher dimensions: For any closed manifold M the projective tangent bundle together with its tautological line bundle is bordant. One may use this observation to obtain the Wu relations for the Stiefel-Whitney numbers and to compute the unoriented cobordism ring.

Literature

In the following we list some of the literature related to various topics mentioned in the lectures. Once in a while the list will be updated, extended, or corrected.

Milnor's K-theory

The basic texts for the definitions of Milnor's K-ring and its norm are [Milnor, 1970] and [Bass and Tate, 1973]. The well-definedness of the norm was first proven in [Kato, 1980]. A fundamental sum formula ("dd=0") is shown in [Kato, 1986]. Sections 1 and 2 of [Rost, 1996] contain a summary of the basic functorial properties of Milnor's K-theory and other modules over Milnor's K-ring, like Galois cohomology. For the isomorphism between Milnor's K₂ and the "classical" K₂ of a field (Matsumoto's Theorem) see [Milnor, 1971]. See also Chapter III of [Weibel, 1997].

Galois cohomology

Standard references are Cohomologie Galoisienne [Serre, 1994] and Corps Locaux [Serre, 1962] (or the translations [Serre, 1997] and [Serre, 1979]). See also Chapter VII in The Book of Involutions [Knus et al., 1998].

Bloch-Kato conjecture

For n=p=2 ("Merkurjev's Theorem"): [Merkurjev, 1981], [Suslin, 1982], [Wadsworth, 1986], [Arason, 1984]. For n=2 ("Theorem of Merkurjev and Suslin"): [Merkurjev and Suslin, 1982], [Suslin, 1987]. For n=3, p=2: [Merkurjev and Suslin, 1990a], [Merkurjev and Suslin, 1990b], [Rost, 1986], [Rost, 1988a]. For p=2 ("Milnor conjecture"): [Voevodsky, 1996].

Central simple algebras

See Chapter I in The Book of Involutions [Knus et al., 1998] and the literature mentioned there, in particular [Scharlau, 1985] and [Draxl, 1983]. For symbol algebras (cyclic algebras) see also [Milnor, 1971].

K₁ and SK₁ of central simple algebras

For a survey on the K_i of central simple algebras (i=0,1,2) see [Merkurjev, 1995b]. The first example of a non-trivial SK₁ is due to [Platonov, 1976], see also [Draxl, 1983] and [Suslin, 1991]. The non-triviality of the generic element in SK₁ for algebras with index divisible by 4 has been shown in [Merkurjev, 1993]. See also Chapter IV in The Book of Involutions [Knus et al., 1998].

Pfister forms

Standard references for quadratic forms are [Lam, 1980] and [Scharlau, 1985]. For the relations with Milnor's K-theory see [Milnor, 1970]. The well-definedness of the homomorphism e_n (n=3,4) is established in [Arason, 1975], [Jacob and Rost, 1989].

Chow groups

For the classical Chow groups see [Fulton, 1984]. For the groups A_p(X,n) see [Rost, 1996].

Birational invariance of A⁰(X)

See Corollary 12.10 in [Rost, 1996]. For unramified cohomology see the survey [Colliot-Thélène, 1995].

Characteristic numbers

The basic references are [Milnor and Stasheff, 1974] and [Stong, 1968]. For the Todd numbers and their properties see [Hirzebruch, 1995]. The denominators of the Todd classes are computed in [Atiyah and Hirzebruch, 1961]. The Riemann-Roch theorem in the algebro-geometric setting can be found in [Fulton, 1984].

Steenrod operations

See [Steenrod, 1962], [Milnor, 1958], [Margolis, 1983].

Cobordism and formal group laws

See Quillen's paper [Quillen, 1971] and Adam's Chicago Lectures [Adams, 1995]. The unoriented cobordism ring is treated in [Bröcker and tom Dieck, 1970]. Further references: [Thom, 1954], [Ravenel, 1986], [Shibata, 1971], [Shibata, 1973], [Buoncristiano and Hacon, 1981], [Buoncristiano and Hacon, 1983], [Buoncristiano and Hacon, 1985], [Buoncristiano and Hacon, 1986]. For the formal group law version of the fundamental relation in unoriented cobordism see [Rost, 2000].

Minimal dimension of generic splitting varieties

For elements in the Brauer group or for Pfister forms see Theorem 4.1 resp. Corollary 8.2 in [Karpenko, 1999]. See also [Vishik, 1998]

A₀(X,1) and "Injectivity"

For a Severi-Brauer variety X of a central simple algebra A the computations CH₀(X)=K₀A and A₀(X,1)=K₁A appeared first in [Panin, 1984] resp. [Merkurjev and Suslin, 1992]. For a quadric X, the group A₀(X,1) has been studied in [Rost, 1988b]. In the case of a Pfister form the situation is somewhat simpler, see [Kahn, 1997]. A related theme is the norm principle and the notion of R-equivalence for algebraic groups; cf. [Gille, 1993], [Merkurjev, 1995a], and [Chernousov and Merkurjev, 1998]

Cohomological invariants

For definitions and properties of the H³-invariant see [Serre, 1995], § 31 in The Book of Involutions [Knus et al., 1998], and [Esnault et al., 1998]; unfortunately a complete exposition on its basic properties is still missing. For the H³-invariant for F₄ (or for exceptional Jordan algebras) see [Rost, 1991], [Petersson and Racine, 1996], and § 40 in The Book of Involutions [Knus et al., 1998].

Conner-Floyd fixed point theorems

The case of (Z/p)²-actions is treated in [Conner and Floyd, 1964]. For the general case see [Floyd, 1971].

Chain Lemma

For the case of degree 3 algebras see [Petersson and Racine, 1996] and [Rost, 1999]. The basis for our considerations will be [Rost, 1998] (Warning: This text is hard to read without preliminary remarks).

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J. F. Adams. Stable homotopy and generalised homology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1995. Reprint of the 1974 original. MR 1324104

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[Haile et al., 1996]

Darrell E. Haile, Max-Albert Knus, Markus Rost, and Jean-Pierre Tignol. Algebras of odd degree with involution, trace forms and dihedral extensions. Israel J. Math., 96:part B, 299-340, 1996. MR 1433693

[Hirzebruch, 1995]

Friedrich Hirzebruch. Topological methods in algebraic geometry. Classics in Mathematics. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1995. Translated from the German and Appendix One by R. L. E. Schwarzenberger, With a preface to the third English edition by the author and Schwarzenberger, Appendix Two by A. Borel, Reprint of the 1978 edition. MR 1335917

[Jacob and Rosenberg, 1995]

Bill Jacob and Alex Rosenberg, editors. K-theory and algebraic geometry: connections with quadratic forms and division algebras, volume 58, Part 2 of Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, Providence, RI, 1995. American Mathematical Society. MR 1327285

[Jacob and Rost, 1989]

Bill Jacob and Markus Rost. Degree four cohomological invariants for quadratic forms. Invent. Math., 96(3):551-570, 1989. MR 996554

[Kahn, 1997]

Bruno Kahn. La conjecture de Milnor (d'après V. Voevodsky). Astérisque, (245):Exp. No. 834, 5, 379-418, 1997. Séminaire Bourbaki, Vol. 1996/97. MR 1627119

[Karpenko, 1999]

Nikita Karpenko. On anisotropy of orthogonal involutions. To appear in J. Ramanujan Math. Soc., 1999.

[Kato, 1980]

Kazuya Kato. A generalization of local class field theory by using K-groups. II. J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo Sect. IA Math., 27(3):603-683, 1980. MR 603953

[Kato, 1986]

Kazuya Kato. Milnor K-theory and the Chow group of zero cycles. In Bloch et al. [Bloch et al., 1986], pages 241-253. MR 862638

[Knus et al., 1998]

Max-Albert Knus, Alexander Merkurjev, Markus Rost, and Jean-Pierre Tignol. The book of involutions. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1998. With a preface in French by J. Tits. MR 1632779

[Lam, 1980]

T. Y. Lam. The algebraic theory of quadratic forms. Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co. Inc. Advanced Book Program, Reading, Mass., 1980. Revised second printing, Mathematics Lecture Note Series. MR 634798

[Margolis, 1983]

H. R. Margolis. Spectra and the Steenrod algebra. North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1983. Modules over the Steenrod algebra and the stable homotopy category. MR 738973

[Merkurjev and Suslin, 1982]

A. S. Merkurjev and A. A. Suslin. K-cohomology of Severi-Brauer varieties and the norm residue homomorphism. Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR Ser. Mat., 46(5):1011-1046, 1135-1136, 1982. [Math. USSR Izv. 21 (1983), 307-340]. MR 675529

[Merkurjev and Suslin, 1990a]

A. S. Merkurjev and A. A. Suslin. Norm residue homomorphism of degree three. Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR Ser. Mat., 54(2):339-356, 1990. [Math. USSR Izv. 36 (1991), no. 2, 349-367], also: LOMI-preprint (1986). MR 1062517

[Merkurjev and Suslin, 1990b]

A. S. Merkurjev and A. A. Suslin. The group K₃ for a field. Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR Ser. Mat., 54(3):522-545, 1990. [Math. USSR Izv. 36 (1991), no. 3, 541-565], also: LOMI-preprint (1986). MR 1072694

[Merkurjev and Suslin, 1992]

A. S. Merkurjev and A. A. Suslin. The group of K₁-zero-cycles on Severi-Brauer varieties. Nova J. Algebra Geom., 1(3):297-315, 1992. MR 1218356

[Merkurjev, 1981]

A. S. Merkurjev. On the norm residue symbol of degree 2. Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 261(3):542-547, 1981. [Soviet Math. Dokl. 24 (1981), no. 3, (1982), 546-551]. MR 638926

[Merkurjev, 1993]

A. S. Merkurjev. Generic element in SK₁ for simple algebras. K-Theory, 7(1):1-3, 1993. MR 1220421

[Merkurjev, 1995a]

A. S. Merkurjev. The norm principle for algebraic groups. Algebra i Analiz, 7(2):77-105, 1995. [St. Petersburg Math. J. 7 (1996), no. 2, 243-264]. MR 1347513

[Merkurjev, 1995b]

A. S. Merkurjev. K-theory of simple algebras. In Jacob and Rosenberg [Jacob and Rosenberg, 1995], pages 65-83. MR 1327281

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[Milnor, 1971]

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[Panin, 1984]

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[Petersson and Racine, 1996]

Holger P. Petersson and Michel L. Racine. An elementary approach to the Serre-Rost invariant of Albert algebras. Indag. Math. (N.S.), 7(3):343-365, 1996. MR 1621373

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[Quillen, 1971]

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[Rost, 1986]

Markus Rost. Hilbert 90 for K₃ for degree-two extensions. Preprint, 1986.

[Rost, 1988a]

Markus Rost. On Hilbert Satz 90 for K₃ for quadratic extensions. Preprint, 1988.

[Rost, 1988b]

Markus Rost. On the spinor norm and A₀(X,K₁) for quadrics. Preprint, 1988.

[Rost, 1991]

Markus Rost. A (mod 3) invariant for exceptional Jordan algebras. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I Math., 313(12):823-827, 1991. MR 1138557

[Rost, 1996]

Markus Rost. Chow groups with coefficients. Doc. Math., 1:No. 16, 319-393 (electronic), 1996. MR 1418952 [ORIGINAL ARTICLE]

[Rost, 1998]

Markus Rost. Chain lemma for splitting fields of symbols. Preprint, 1998.

[Rost, 1999]

Markus Rost. The chain lemma for Kummer elements of degree 3. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I Math., 328(3):185-190, 1999. MR 1674602 [ORIGINAL ARTICLE]

[Rost, 2000]

Markus Rost. Computations in the mod 2 lazard ring. Preprint, 2000.

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