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On the Rost divisibility of henselian discrete valuation fields of cohomological dimension 3

### Yong Hu and Zhengyao Wu

Vol. 5 (2020), No. 4, 677–707
##### Abstract

Let $F$ be a field, $\ell$ a prime and $D$ a central division $F$-algebra of $\ell$-power degree. By the Rost kernel of $D$ we mean the subgroup of ${F}^{\ast }$ consisting of elements $\lambda$ such that the cohomology class $\left(D\right)\cup \left(\lambda \right)\in {H}^{3}\left(F,{ℚ}_{\ell }∕{ℤ}_{\ell }\left(2\right)\right)$ vanishes. In  1985, Suslin conjectured that the Rost kernel is generated by $i$-th powers of reduced norms from ${D}^{\otimes i}$ for all $i\ge 1$. Despite known counterexamples, we prove some new special cases of Suslin’s conjecture. We assume $F$ is a henselian discrete valuation field with residue field $k$ of characteristic different from $\ell$. When $D$ has period $\ell$, we show that Suslin’s conjecture holds if either $k$ is a $2$-local field or the cohomological $\ell$-dimension ${cd}_{\ell }\left(k\right)$ of $k$ is $\le 2$. When the period is arbitrary, we prove the same result when $k$ itself is a henselian discrete valuation field with ${cd}_{\ell }\left(k\right)\le 2$. In the case $\ell =char\left(k\right)$, an analog is obtained for tamely ramified algebras. We conjecture that Suslin’s conjecture holds for all fields of cohomological dimension 3.

##### Keywords
reduced norms, division algebras over henselian fields, Rost invariant, biquaternion algebras
##### Mathematical Subject Classification
Primary: 11S25
Secondary: 11R52, 16K50, 17A35