Triality and étale algebras

Knus, Max-Albert;Tignol, Jean-Pierre
(2010) Quadratic Forms, Linear Algebraic Groups, and Cohomology — ISBN: [978-1-4419-6210-2], p. 259-286, published

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  • Knus, Max-AlbertEidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
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Trialitarian automorphisms are related to automorphisms of order 3 of the Dynkin diagram of type D4. Octic étale algebras with trivial discriminant containing quartic subalgebras are classified by Galois cohomology with values in the Weyl group of type D4. This paper discusses triality for such étale extensions.
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Knus, M.-A., & Tignol, J.-P. (2010). Triality and étale algebras. In Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène (ed.), Quadratic Forms, Linear Algebraic Groups, and Cohomology (p. p. 259-286). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6211-9_16