Massey vanishing conjecture for Galois cohomology

Let kk be a field, let pp be a prime, and let n3n\geq 3. For cohomology classes

α0,,αn1H1(k,Fp),\alpha_0,\dots,\alpha_{n-1}\in H^1(k,{\mathbf F}_p),

consider the nn-fold Massey product α0,,αn1H2(k,Fp)\langle\alpha_0,\dots,\alpha_{n-1}\rangle\subseteq H^2(k,{\mathbf F}_p). Massey vanishing conjecture. If this Massey product is non-empty, then it contains 0H2(k,Fp)0\in H^2(k,{\mathbf F}_p). The conjecture extends the vanishing of triple Massey products from coefficients in F2{\mathbf F}_2 to all primes and all lengths, and connects arithmetic Galois cohomology with the topology of link complements. It remains open in general.

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Primary source

Yonatan Harpaz and Olivier Wittenberg, “The Massey vanishing conjecture for number fields”, arXiv:1904.06512 (2022).

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