Antieau–Williams conjecture on failure of purity for non-special semisimple groups

Let kk be a field, let GG be a connected reductive group over kk, and let XX be an irreducible smooth kk-scheme with function field KK. Purity for GG-torsors over XX means that the map

im(Heˊt1(X,G)Heˊt1(SpecK,G))xX(1)im(Heˊt1(SpecOX,x,G)Heˊt1(SpecK,G))\operatorname{im}\left({\mathrm H}^1_{\mathrm{\acute{e}t}}(X,G)\to {\mathrm H}^1_{\mathrm{\acute{e}t}}(\operatorname{Spec} K,G)\right)\to \bigcap_{x\in X^{(1)}}\operatorname{im}\left({\mathrm H}^1_{\mathrm{\acute{e}t}}(\operatorname{Spec} \mathcal{O}_{X,x},G)\to {\mathrm H}^1_{\mathrm{\acute{e}t}}(\operatorname{Spec} K,G)\right)

is surjective. Antieau–Williams conjecture. If GG is a non-special, semisimple kk-group scheme, then there exists a smooth, affine kk-scheme for which purity fails. The conjecture predicts that purity for torsors is not a general phenomenon beyond the special case; the supplied text gives no resolution status, so it remains open here.

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Elden Elmanto, Girish Kulkarni and Matthias Wendt, “A^1-connected components of classifying spaces and purity for torsors”, arXiv:2104.06273 (2021).

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