Cohomological invariants for central simple algebras of degree 8 and exponent 2

Author(s):  
Alexander S. Sivatski
2015 ◽  
Vol 151 (8) ◽  
pp. 1416-1432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Merkurjev ◽  
Alexander Neshitov ◽  
Kirill Zainoulline

We prove that the group of normalized cohomological invariants of degree $3$ modulo the subgroup of semidecomposable invariants of a semisimple split linear algebraic group $G$ is isomorphic to the torsion part of the Chow group of codimension-$2$ cycles of the respective versal $G$-flag. In particular, if $G$ is simple, we show that this factor group is isomorphic to the group of indecomposable invariants of $G$. As an application, we construct nontrivial cohomological invariants for indecomposable central simple algebras.


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