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Rost invariant of the center, revisited

### Skip Garibaldi and Alexander S. Merkurjev

Vol. 291 (2017), No. 2, 369–397
##### Abstract

The Rost invariant of the Galois cohomology of a simple simply connected algebraic group over a field $F$ is defined regardless of the characteristic of $F$, but certain formulas for it have only been known under a hypothesis on the characteristic. We improve on those formulas by removing the hypothesis on the characteristic and removing an ad hoc pairing that appeared in those formulas. As a preliminary step of independent interest, we also extend the classification of invariants of quasitrivial tori to all fields.

##### Keywords
Rost invariant, cohomological invariant, cup product, Tits class
Primary: 20G15
Secondary: 11E72
##### Milestones
Received: 26 September 2016
Revised: 8 February 2017
Accepted: 14 February 2017
Published: 14 September 2017
##### Authors
 Skip Garibaldi IDA Center for Communications Research San Diego, CA 92121 United States Alexander S. Merkurjev Department of Mathematics University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555 United States