Abstract:
Let K/k be a separable field extension of degree 2, D be a finite-dimensional central division algebra over K with K/k-involution τ, h be an hermitian anisotropic form on a right D-vector space with respect to τ and let U(h) be the unitary group of h. Then the reduced Whitehead group of its special linear subgroup is defined as follows: SUKan1(h)=SU(h)/[U(h),U(h)], where [U(h),U(h)] is the commutator subgroup of U(h). The first main result establishes a link between the above group and its analog SUK1(h) for the case of isotropic h (with respect to the same τ).
Theorem. There exists a surjective homomorphism fromSUKan1(h)toSUK1(h).
Furthermore, we give also a solution of conjugacy problem for special unitary subgroups of anisotropic hermitian forms over quaternion division algebras as subgroups of their multiplicative groups.
Key words and phrases:
anisotropic and isotropic algebraic groups, reduced Whitehead groups, hermitian forms, special unitary groups.
Citation:
V. I. Yanchevskii, “Reduced Whitehead groups and conjugacy problem for special unitary groups of anisotropic hermitian forms”, Problems in the theory of representations of algebras and groups. Part 23, Zap. Nauchn. Sem. POMI, 400, POMI, St. Petersburg, 2012, 222–245; J. Math. Sci. (N. Y.), 192:2 (2013), 250–262
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This publication is cited in the following 3 articles:
V. I. Yanchevskiǐ, “On abelian unitary involutions of crossed products”, Dokl. Akad. nauk, 68:1 (2024), 15
V. I. Yanchevskiǐ, “Henselian division algebras and reduced unitary Whitehead groups for outer forms of anisotropic algebraic groups of the type An”, Sb. Math., 213:8 (2022), 1096–1156
V. I. Yanchevskii, “On reduced anisotropic unitary Whitehead groups of henselian division algebras which are either unramified or tamely ramified with commutative residue algebras”, Dokl. Akad. nauk, 65:1 (2021), 7