Values of isotropic quadratic forms at -integral points
We prove certain weak versions of some celebrated results due to Alexander Vishik comparing rationality of algebraic cycles over the function field of a quadric and over the base field. The original proofs use Vishik’s symmetric operations in the algebraic cobordism theory and work only in characteristic 0. Our proofs use the modulo 2 Steenrod operations in the Chow theory and work in any characteristic ≠ 2. Our weak versions are still sufficient for existing applications. In particular, Vishik’s...
This is an account of some work of Markus Rost and his students Dominik Boos and Susanne Maurer. It concerns the possible dimensions for composition (also called Hurwitz) algebras. We adapt the work to the braided monoidal setting.