Non-formality of Galois cohomology modulo all primes

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Main Authors: Merkurjev, Alexander, Scavia, Federico
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author Merkurjev, Alexander
Scavia, Federico
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Scavia, Federico
contents Let $p$ be a prime number and let $F$ be a field of characteristic different from $p$. We prove that there exist a field extension $L/F$ and $a,b,c,d$ in $L^{\times}$ such that $(a,b)=(b,c)=(c,d)=0$ in $\mathrm{Br}(F)[p]$ but $\langle a,b,c,d\rangle$ is not defined over $L$. Thus the Strong Massey Vanishing Conjecture at the prime $p$ fails for $L$, and the cochain differential graded ring $C^*(Γ_L,\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z})$ of the absolute Galois group $Γ_L$ of $L$ is not formal. This answers a question of Positselski.
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spellingShingle Non-formality of Galois cohomology modulo all primes
Merkurjev, Alexander
Scavia, Federico
Number Theory
Algebraic Geometry
12G05 (Primary) 55S30, 16K50 (Secondary)
Let $p$ be a prime number and let $F$ be a field of characteristic different from $p$. We prove that there exist a field extension $L/F$ and $a,b,c,d$ in $L^{\times}$ such that $(a,b)=(b,c)=(c,d)=0$ in $\mathrm{Br}(F)[p]$ but $\langle a,b,c,d\rangle$ is not defined over $L$. Thus the Strong Massey Vanishing Conjecture at the prime $p$ fails for $L$, and the cochain differential graded ring $C^*(Γ_L,\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z})$ of the absolute Galois group $Γ_L$ of $L$ is not formal. This answers a question of Positselski.
title Non-formality of Galois cohomology modulo all primes
topic Number Theory
Algebraic Geometry
12G05 (Primary) 55S30, 16K50 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17004