Grothendieck's theorem on non-abelian H^2 and local-global principles

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1998-03-24

arxiv.org/abs/math/9803113v1

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Algebraic Geometry

22 pages, AMS-TeX; accepted for publication by the Journal of the AMS

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A theorem of Grothendieck asserts that over a perfect field k of cohomological dimension one, all non-abelian H^2-cohomology sets of algebraic groups are trivial. The purpose of this paper is to establish a formally real generalization of this theorem. The generalization -- to the context of perfect fields of virtual cohomological dimension one -- takes the form of a local-global principle for the H^2-sets with respect to the orderings of the field. This principle asserts in particular that an element in H^2 is neutral precisely when it is neutral in the real closure with respect to every ordering in a dense subset of the real spectrum of k. Our techniques provide a new proof of Grothendieck's original theorem. An application to homogeneous spaces over k is also given.

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